Best of Erlang2022

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    Avatar of bytebytegoByteByteGo·4y

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

    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.

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    Avatar of quastorQuastor Daily·4y

    Snapchat's Shift to Microservices

    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.

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    Avatar of logrocketLogRocket·4y

    Comparing Elixir with Rust and Go

    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.