erlang-resources.md

This is not intended to be comprehensive or authoritative, just free online resources I've found valuable while learning more about Erlang.

Instruction

• Learn You Some Erlang
• Joe Armstrong's Ph.D. thesis (PDF)
• Introduction to Erlang blog series
• The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Riak and Erlang/OTP
• Getting Started with Erlang User's Guide
• OTP Design Principles User's Guide

Documentation

• Official Erlang docs
• Alternative presentation of Erlang docs

Community

• Erlang Solutions
• ErlangCentral
• Erlware
• Planet Erlang
• TrapExit (retired, frequently broken)

Mailing lists

• Erlang questions
• Erlang.org list of lists

Advocacy

• Erlang is not a Concurrent Functional Programming Language
• Systems that Run Forever Self-heal and Scale: Lambda Jam keynote by Joe Armstrong
• Erlang's Open Telecom Platform (OTP) Framework: QCon talk by Steve Vinoski
• Erlang – A survey of the language and its industrial applications (PostScript)

Style

• Solving Embarrassingly Obvious Problems In Erlang
• More Embarrassingly Obvious Problems
• Programming Rules and Conventions (incomplete)

Projects

• GitHub Erlang repositories
• Comprehensive Erlang Archive Network (unclear if still active)

Exercises

• Études for Erlang
• Erlang Programming Exercises

General functional programming exercises

• Project Euler
• Programming Praxis
• Rosalind

Alternative languages targeting the Erlang VM

• Joxa
• Lisp-flavored Erlang (LFE)
• Elixir

Misc

• Mostly Erlang (podcast)
• Erlang interviews and resources

Twitter accounts

Twitter seems to be the de facto water cooler for technical conversations, and Erlang is no exception.

There are far more active accounts than I can comfortably list here; these are just a few of the more interesting ones.

• Erlang Factory
• Erlang Solutions
• Robert Virding
• Joe Armstrong
• Paolo D’Incau
• Eric Merritt
• Francesco Cesarini
• Bryan Hunter
• Ram C Singh
• Totally Erlang
• Brian L Troutwine
• ErlangInfo