Which companies are using Erlang, and why?

Re:Which companies are using Erlang, and why? by dmitriid on Monday September 30, 2019 @04:49AM (#21112984)

There are two areas where Erlang really works well if you know what you're doing:

- telecoms, as it was specifically designed for telecoms.

- "glue" in networked applications: to orchestrate, pass messages around and the like. See GitHub [1] or CoD [2] etc.

In a sense, chats are a mix of both. Erlang is rarely a good fit in pretty much anything else.

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Re:Which companies are using Erlang, and why? by ahoka on Monday September 30, 2019 @07:28AM (#21114004)

Yes, Erlang was designed for the control plane, not the data plane.

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