Erlang is a general purpose or you might say a functional programming language and runtime environment. It was built in such a way that it had inherent support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. Erlang was originally developed to be used in several large telecommunication systems. But it has now slowly made its foray into diverse sectors like Ecommerce, Computer telephony and Banking sectors as well.

This Course has been prepared for both Beginner & Professionals aspiring to make a career in the field of telecom, banking, instant messaging, e-commerce and computer telephony as well. This Course will give you enough understanding on this programming language and also help you in building scalable soft real time systems that will have requirements on higher availability.

The Erlang was originally developed to be used in the several large tele-communication systems from the Ericsson. The first version of Erlang was developed by the Joe Armstrong, Robert Virding & Mike Williams in 1986.