ByteByteGo

Erlang was developed in the 80’s by Ericsson for telecom switches that demanded extreme reliability. It is upon this rock-solid foundation that these modern chat services were built. The ELK Stack is composed of three open-source products: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana.

What do WhatsApp, Discord, and Facebook Messenger have in common? (Episode 10)

Quastor Daily

Snapchat's Service Mesh Snapchat is an instant messaging application with 360 million daily active users from all around the world. Snap's shift from a Monolith to Microservices led to a 65% reduction in compute costs while reducing latency, increasing reliability and making it easier for Snap to grow as an organization. Snap used the Service Mesh design pattern where they had a data plane and a control plane.

Snapchat's Shift to Microservices

LogRocket

Elixir is a functional and concurrent programming language built on top of Erlang. Elixir uses the Supervisor and Application model to build fault-tolerant systems. Elixir also uses the BEAM virtual machine, a fast compiler that compiles Erlang code into bytecode.

Comparing Elixir with Rust and Go

Erlang is a programming language and runtime environment designed for building distributed, fault-tolerant, and soft real-time systems with high availability and concurrency. It provides features such as lightweight processes, message passing, and supervision trees for building scalable and resilient applications, especially in telecommunications, messaging, and distributed systems. Readers can explore Erlang's concurrency model, fault tolerance mechanisms, and use cases for building highly available and fault-tolerant systems, leveraging its strengths in distributed computing and fault tolerance in modern software architectures.

Best of Erlang — 2022