Erlang Programming Language

Created: Oct 28, 2019 by Pradeep Gowda Updated: Dec 21, 2023

Concepts

ferd.ca -> The Zen of Erlang [Feb 2016]
Erlang Scheduler Details and Why It Matters - Hamidreza Soleimani’s Blog [Feb 2016]
Ode to Erlang
Elixir and The Beam: How Concurrency Really Works – Flatiron Labs – Medium
The soul of Erlang by Sasa Juric (2019) which shows off the essence of the BEAM. I think it might actually be easier to inspect the BEAM over those other VMs. For one, it is much older and stable. And secondly, the BEAM has a lot of self-introspection features. – via

Spawned Shelter - the best articles, videos and books for learning Erlang, the internals of its virtual machine and other languages that run on top of it
happi/theBeamBook: A description of the Erlang Runtime System ERTS and the virtual Machine BEAM.
Adopting Erlang is an ongoing effort to gather all the resources that will help you use Erlang in a business. The booksite is divided in three sections focusing particularly on Erlang/OTP’s higher level concepts in the current open source ecosystem, how to use it in production (while setting up a pipeline for continuous development and delivery), and how to build a team when you’re starting from scratch.

History of Erlang
Making Reliable Distributed Systems in the Presence of software errors - PhD thesis of Joe Armstrong
Greg Young - The art of destroying software on Vimeo

Kerl is analogous to virtualenv in python
Expm is the package manager for Erlang and Elixir.
distributerl - Building blocks for Erlang/OTP systems using distributed algorithms.
Rebar3 – build/distribute erlang apps.
recon – Collection of functions and scripts to debug Erlang in production. by ferd; see other libs by him on GH.

How to analyse a BEAM core dump – debugging by attaching GDB to a Erlang process.
ErlyBerly – Erlang visual tracing tool.