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Erlang was born in 1986 inside Ericsson to solve a problem that no other language could handle: building telephone switching systems that must run continuously for years, handle hundreds of thousands of concurrent conversations, and survive hardware failures without dropping a single call. Today, more than forty years later, the principles that made Erlang indispensable for telecommunications are the same principles that power WhatsApp's messaging infrastructure, RabbitMQ's message broker, and countless distributed systems around the world. This book takes you from the very foundations of the language through the full breadth of OTP (the Open Telecom Platform), covering every concept a serious practitioner needs: pattern matching, recursion, lightweight processes, message passing, GenServer and Supervisor behaviours, fault tolerance, distributed programming, ETS and Mnesia data stores, networking, performance optimization, and production deployment. Each chapter builds progressively from beginner to expert level, with extensive code examples, real-world case studies, and deep dives into the internal mechanisms that make Erlang unique. This is not a language reference; it is a practitioner's guide to building systems that run forever.

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