Erlang Glossary
Browse 8 erlang terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
8 Erlang Terms
- Actor
- Actor is a concurrency model where the fundamental unit of computation is an independent entity called an actor that communicates with other actors exclusively...
- BEAM
- The virtual machine at the heart of the Erlang/OTP ecosystem (also running Elixir and other languages), designed for massively concurrent, fault-tolerant,...
- Behavior
- In Erlang/Elixir, a module attribute that defines a set of callback functions a module must implement — analogous to interfaces or traits in other languages —...
- Elixir
- A functional, concurrent programming language built on the Erlang VM (BEAM) designed for building scalable, fault-tolerant applications. Elixir combines...
- Erlang OTP
- The Open Telecom Platform, a set of libraries, behaviors, and design principles that form the standard foundation for building robust Erlang systems. In...
- GenServer
- A generic server behavior module in Erlang/OTP and Elixir that abstracts the common client-server interaction pattern, handling synchronous and asynchronous...
- Supervisor
- A process or component responsible for monitoring, starting, stopping, and restarting other processes, ensuring system resilience — central to Erlang/OTP's...
- Supervisor Tree
- A hierarchical structure in Erlang/OTP (and Elixir) where supervisor processes monitor child processes (workers or other supervisors) and apply a restart...
Related Topics
- Concurrency (4 terms in common)
- Elixir (2 terms in common)
- Open Source (1 terms in common)
- Frameworks (1 terms in common)
- Otp (1 terms in common)
- Message Passing (1 terms in common)
- Functional (1 terms in common)
- Process Management (1 terms in common)
- Language (1 terms in common)
- Virtual Machine (1 terms in common)
- Interface (1 terms in common)
- Devops (1 terms in common)
- Fault Tolerance (1 terms in common)