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Why We Chose Erlang over Java, Scala, Go, C

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Summary

Colin Hemmings discusses when and why one should choose Erlang over other options, but also when not to choose it.

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Colin Hemmings has been designing and developing large-scale online services for over ten years. He is the CTO and co-founder of Outlyer, an infrastructure monitoring platform. He looks after the overall architecture for the product to ensure they scale to billions of metrics every minute.

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May 31, 2017

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  • Erlang

    by Neil Murphy,

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    Interesting but I didn't really see anything that said when not to use Erlang.

  • video playback

    by Ben Friedman,

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    I cannot get the video to play beyond 19:17, in chrome. Am I the only one?

  • Re: video playback

    by Roxana Bacila,

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    Hi Ben,
    We've tried in various browsers on Windows and Mac machines and the video seems to be playing just fine. We suspect it might have been a temporary internet connection problem on your side. Please let us know if you still encounter the problem.
    Thanks,
    Roxana Bacila
    Community Manager
    InfoQ Enterprise Software Development Community
    InfoQ.com | InfoQ China | InfoQ Japan | InfoQ Brazil | InfoQ France | QCon

  • Re: Erlang

    by Sandro Manke,

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    does that exist?

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