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by brudgers 2223 days ago
Erlang is a message passing language for writing concurrent applications. Architecturally, Erlang programs share logical similarity with microservices. Architecturally, OTP shares some conceptual similarity with serverless frameworks.

Together, Erlang and OTP provide a batteries included environment for building and running scalable concurrent systems. Scalable down to any device that will run Linux, not just up into the cloud.