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tmoerteltoday at 2:15 AM1 replyview on HN

For anyone wondering what the "OTP" part is in Erlang/OTP, it is a set of libraries and associated principles that, in effect, standardize the creation of highly reliable, fault-tolerant applications, originally for the telecom domain. It's worth checking out the brief introduction to the fundamental ideas in the introduction to "OTP Design Principles":

https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/design_principles.html


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hackernudestoday at 2:50 AM

OTP = Open Telecom Platform

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