Erlang News for Developers
Latest Erlang news, tutorials and tools
Erlang developers need a single place to track new releases, best practices and community projects without checking dozens of sites. This page gathers the latest Erlang news, tutorials and release announcements in one feed, refreshed every hour from 50+ developer sources. Browse 20 recent Erlang articles, and explore 10 trending repositories and 1 upcoming conferences further down the page to go deeper.
Latest Erlang articles
Building Distributed Systems in Elixir: Part 8 — Publish / Subscribe
Build a Pub/Sub broker in Elixir using raw BEAM primitives: subscribers, broker, process.monitor, fan‑out, and crash‑cleanup for decoupled messaging....
14 September 2026devto
🕵️♂️ SonicWall SMA1000 (CVE-2026-15409): SSRF to Erlang RCE chained into automated DCSync from the appliance
CVE‑2026‑15409: unauthenticated SSRF in SonicWall SMA1000 WebSocket leads to Erlang exec, LDAP creds, Impacket secretsdump, DCSync, pass‑the‑hash....
10 September 2026reddit
My reproducible Erlang playground with Nix
Learn how to set up a reproducible Nix development shell for Erlang/OTP 29, using flake.nix and beam29Packages, to run experiments from Learn You Some Erlang....
10 September 2026devto
C Is Not a Low-Level Language (2018)
Explore how C’s low‑level model, Spectre/Meltdown, and modern CPU design clash, revealing the complexity of building fast, secure code....
07 September 2026hackernews
Plumtree + HyParView + Store-Carry-Forward: Scaling P2P Clusters to Hundreds of Nodes Without Collapsing the Network
Scale P2P clusters with Plumtree, HyParView, and Store‑Carry‑Forward in Elixir. Efficient gossip, fault tolerance, and message persistence for hundreds of nodes....
06 September 2026devto
The End of WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, and Slack: Why They're Already Dead (And You Don't Know It)
Centralized messengers like WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, and Slack are vulnerable to censorship. Elixir, BitTorrent DHT, Noise, and Yamux enable secure communication....
06 September 2026devto
What if We Could Build an Erlang Cluster Over the Torrent Network?
Run Elixir/Erlang clusters over the BitTorrent DHT with zero TCP ports, using UDP hole‑punching, Noise encryption, and Yamux multiplexing for NAT‑traversal....
06 September 2026devto
Discord Serves 12 Million Concurrent Users With 4 Engineers. Go Couldn’t Keep Up
Discord’s 12M concurrent sockets from its Elixir/Erlang gateway cause unseen spikes; each app and server gets a lightweight process, hiding the issue from metrics....
06 September 2026medium
Erlang web eco-system
Explore Erlang alternatives to Elixir: Nova web framework, Shigoto job queue, Kura ORM, Seki resilience, and rebar3 plugins for audit, mutation, stale tests....
06 September 2026reddit
Erlane web eco-system
Erlang tools mirroring Elixir: Nova web framework, Shigoto job queue, Kura ORM, Seki resilience, and rebar3 plugins for audit, mutation, stale tests....
06 September 2026reddit
Emergence — A Distributed Discovery Network Built with Erlang/OTP
Emergence — A Distributed Discovery Network Built with Erlang/OTP...
04 September 2026reddit
Ergo Framework 3.3: taking observability and reliability to the next level
Ergo Framework 3.3: taking observability and reliability to the next level...
04 September 2026reddit
How Discord Actually Delivers 15 Million Messages a Second on One Cluster
How Discord Actually Delivers 15 Million Messages a Second on One Cluster...
04 September 2026medium
How WhatsApp Fixed Erlang's Tooling Problem
How WhatsApp Fixed Erlang's Tooling Problem...
04 September 2026reddit
Building a Phased Microkernel Compiler in Elixir: How We Tamed Dependency Graphs in JusrisOS
Building a Phased Microkernel Compiler in Elixir: How We Tamed Dependency Graphs in JusrisOS...
03 September 2026devto
How Discord Actually Delivers 15 Million Messages a Second on One Cluster
How Discord Actually Delivers 15 Million Messages a Second on One Cluster...
02 September 2026medium
EEF/CNA debrief of the Erlang/OTP 09/01 releases
EEF/CNA debrief of the Erlang/OTP 09/01 releases...
02 September 2026reddit
My Journey Into Erlang: A Complete Getting-Started Guide for the New Programmer
My Journey Into Erlang: A Complete Getting-Started Guide for the New Programmer...
01 September 2026medium
I Chose Go for DSA Over Giants Like C++ and Java: Here’s Why
I Chose Go for DSA Over Giants Like C++ and Java: Here’s Why...
29 August 2026medium
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