Top "Erlang" questions

Erlang is a general-purpose, garbage-collected programming language and runtime environment, with built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance.

Why is Erlang slower than Java on all these small math benchmarks?

While considering alternatives for Java for a distributed/concurrent/failover/scalable backend environment I discovered Erlang. I've spent some time …

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How to write a simple webserver in Erlang?

Using the default Erlang installation what is the minimum code needed to produce a "Hello world" producing web server?

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Any way to convert a regular string in ActionScript 3 to a ByteArray of Latin-1 Character Codes?

I am having no problem converting a string to a byteArray of UTF-16 encoded characters, but the application I am …

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How did WhatsApp achieve 2 million connections per server?

On Ubuntu, the maximum number of sockets which can be opened seems to be governed from following: $ cat /proc/sys/…

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Failed to Create Cookie file RabbitMQ in Windows

I am trying to run the following command rabbitmq-plugins.bat enable rabbitmq_management and its giving me an error like …

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In Erlang how do I convert a String to a binary value?

In Erlang how do I convert a string to a binary value? String = "Hello" %% should be Binary = <<"Hello"&…

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How to call a method dynamically in Elixir, by specifying both module and method name?

I'd like to know what exactly a method name is in elixir: array = [1,2,3] module_name = :lists method_name = :nth # this …

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How to create global variables in Erlang

I am writing an ejabberd module to filter packets. I need to get the hostname to pull some configs using …

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Concurrency model: Erlang vs Clojure

We are going to write a concurrent program using Clojure, which is going to extract keywords from a huge amount …

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Reduce RabbitMQ memory usage

I'm trying to run RabbitMQ on a small VPS (512mb RAM) along with Nginx and a few other programs. I've …

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