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Erlang Solutions
NameErlang Solutions
Founded2010
HeadquartersLondon, United Kingdom
IndustrySoftware, Telecommunications
ProductsErlang, OTP, Riak, RabbitMQ services

Erlang Solutions is a private company specializing in consulting, development, and support for the Erlang programming language and related technologies. The firm provides engineering services, training, and commercial support to enterprises across telecommunications, finance, and technology sectors. It engages with open source ecosystems and contributes to distributed systems, fault-tolerant architectures, and soft real-time infrastructure.

History

Erlang Solutions traces its origins in the early 2010s amid demand for concurrent and distributed systems driven by companies such as Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola Solutions, Siemens, and Alcatel-Lucent. Its formation followed broader developments in functional programming communities alongside projects like OTP (Open Telecom Platform), Erlang/OTP, BEAM virtual machine, Lisp Machine, and concepts practiced at research centers including Bell Labs, Cambridge University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Oslo, and Uppsala University. Early engagements included collaborating with vendors and adopters such as Skype, WhatsApp, Facebook, Amazon Web Services, and Twitter to scale messaging and real-time services. Expansion mirrored industry shifts seen in companies like Red Hat, Canonical, Docker, Inc., VMware, and Pivotal Software, while intersecting with initiatives from Apache Software Foundation, Linux Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Services and Products

The company offers consulting, bespoke development, and training, drawing parallels with service providers like Accenture, Capgemini, ThoughtWorks, IBM Global Services, and Atos. Its product and support portfolio aligns with technologies such as RabbitMQ, Riak, Mnesia, Cassandra, and PostgreSQL and complements platforms from Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Heroku, OpenStack, and Kubernetes. Training programs resemble curricula offered by institutions like Coursera, Pluralsight, Udacity, edX, and O’Reilly Media and are tailored for engineers migrating from ecosystems involving Java, Scala, Go (programming language), Python (programming language), and Node.js. Managed services and support models mirror offerings from Rackspace, DigitalOcean, Heroku, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and SAP.

Technology and Contributions

Erlang Solutions contributes to the Erlang ecosystem and open source projects akin to contributions by Mozilla Foundation, Canonical, Red Hat, Google, and Facebook Open Source. Work touches the BEAM virtual machine, OTP (Open Telecom Platform), Erlang/OTP, and libraries comparable to Cowboy (web server), Elixir-lang, Phoenix (web framework), Rebar3, and Hex.pm. The company has engaged with distributed database technologies like Riak, Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, and CockroachDB and messaging infrastructures comparable to Kafka, ActiveMQ, ZeroMQ, NATS (software), and AMQP. Contributions intersect principles demonstrated by academic and industrial projects from Stanford University, UC Berkeley, MIT CSAIL, Bell Labs Research, and Microsoft Research.

Clients and Projects

Clients have included telecommunications and technology firms reminiscent of Telefonica, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, BT Group, and Orange S.A., as well as financial institutions similar to Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group, and HSBC. Projects have spanned collaborations comparable to those with Skype, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, and SoundCloud to deliver scalable real-time messaging, streaming, and backend services. Enterprise integrations paralleled work for organizations like Siemens, Schneider Electric, Siemens Energy, ABB, and GE Digital, while cloud migrations resembled engagements with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, IBM Cloud, and Oracle Cloud. The firm has partnered in initiatives linked to standards bodies such as IETF, IEEE, 3GPP, ITU, and W3C.

Corporate Structure and Locations

The company operates as a private entity with a global engineering footprint similar to multi-site firms like ThoughtWorks, Canonical, Red Hat, IBM, and Atlassian. Offices and engineering hubs have been established in cities comparable to London, Stockholm, Oslo, Dublin, San Francisco, New York City, Berlin, Bangalore, and Sydney. The organizational model reflects distributed teams, remote work policies, and professional services structures seen at Accenture, Capgemini, Deloitte, PwC, and KPMG. Leadership and technical staff often have backgrounds connected to academic and industrial institutions including University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, University of Oxford, and Chalmers University of Technology.

Awards and Recognition

Recognition and awards have paralleled honors received by technology firms active in open source and systems engineering such as Linux Foundation member accolades, industry awards from The Europas, The Europas Awards, TechCrunch, Gartner, Forrester Research, and productivity lists by Fast Company. Contributions to programming language communities align with historical recognition similar to that received by creators and stewards at Erlang/OTP, Elixir, Ruby on Rails, Django (web framework), and Node.js projects.

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