Erlang Shen or Erlang is a Chinese deity who supposedly regulates floods, Erlang a computer language ideal for large volume applications. Is this just some kind of weird coincidence?
Wikipedia says it's either a reference to Agner Krarup Erlang, or an abbreviation for Ericsson Language. Given that it was developed by a company based in Sweden, it's unlikely (though not impossible) that it's secretly a reference to a Chinese god.