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How AOL Uses Erlang

Erlang factory Pero Subasic, chief architect of R&D at AOL, will present at the Erlang Factory event this month in London on AOL’s Erlang framework for real-time computational advertising. You can find the a paper that includes some of these details here. Subasic describes the company’s Erlang framework as “experimental.” It’s not clear whether this is in production yet.

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Erlang, originally created at Ericcson in the 80s, has seen a resurgence in recent years. For example, Facebook built its real-time messaging system in Erlang, and the NoSQL databases Apache CouchDB and Riak were both built in Erlang.

We shared several resources for learning Erlang here.

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