Erlang development

Features of Outsource Erlang Development

• High-level language constructions

  Erlang is a declarative programming language that allows describing what should be computed instead of describing how it should be computed. Erlang development outsourcing offers the use of dynamic typing, which can speed up the application development.

• Parallel processing and transferring of messages

  Erlang processes are lightweight (the process creation time takes a few microseconds and does not depend on the number of running processes) and even more efficient than the operating system threads, enabling Erlang to work with several tens of thousands of processes in the same app.

• Distributed processing

  Since Erlang processes do not use shared memory and communicate only through messages, the language easily turns a parallel app into a distributed one, where different processes are executed on different network nodes.

• Reliability

  Erlang supports various approaches for building highly reliable systems. At a lower level, the processes can be linked together and alerted by messages upon completion of the linked process. At a higher level, with OTP, it is possible to set different policies for monitoring individual processes and process groups.

• Soft real-time operation

  Erlang uses automatic memory management, where “garbage collection” is performed separately for each process in the system. Hire an Erlang developer to make your system respond within a few microseconds, even with garbage collection, enabling operation at a high load with almost no loss of performance.

• Operation of apps for a long time

  Erlang supports “hot” code replacement of modules in a running app, in which the old and new versions of the code can run at the same time. You can address this with an Erlang development company, if your system should not stop to update the code. The examples of these systems include telephone systems or traffic control systems.