Projects using Erlang

Projects using Erlang include:

• Solution stacks
  • LYME (software bundle), to serve dynamic web pages
  • LYCE (software bundle), to serve dynamic web pages

• Web servers:
  • Yaws web server
  • Phoenix/Elixir MVC web development framework
    

• Database (distributed):
  • Cloudant, a database service based on the company's fork of CouchDB, BigCouch
  • CouchDB, a document-based database that uses MapReduce
  • Couchbase Server (née Membase), database management system optimized for storing data behind interactive web applications
  • Mnesia, a distributed database
  • Riak, a distributed database
  • SimpleDB, a distributed database that is part of Amazon Web Services

• Chat:
  • ejabberd, an Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) instant messaging server
    • Facebook Chat system was running on ejabberd based servers
    • Tuenti chat is based on ejabberd

• CMS:
  • Zotonic, a content management system and web framework

• Configuration management:
  • Chef (software), for which the core API server, originally written in Ruby, was completely re-written in version 11 in Erlang

• Queue:
  • RabbitMQ, an implementation of Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)

• Desktop:
  • Wings 3D, a 3D subdivision modeler, used to model and texture polygon meshes

• Tools
  • GitHub, a web-based hosting service for software development projects that use the Git version control system. Erlang is used for RPC proxies to ruby processes.
• Mobile:
  • WhatsApp, mobile messenger
  • Whisper, an anonymous social network

• Enterprise:
  • Issuu, an online digital publisher^[31]
  • Twitterfall, a service to view trends and patterns from Twitter

• Trading
  • Goldman Sachs, high-frequency trading programs
  • Smarkets, sports betting exchange

• Gaming
  • Vendetta Online Naos game server
  • Battlestar Galactica Online game server by Bigpoint
  • Call of Duty server core
  • League of Legends chat system by Riot Games, based on ejabberd