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Systems that Never Stop (and Erlang)
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Summary
Joe Armstrong presents 6 laws to obey in order to obtain high system reliability, Isolation, Concurrency, Failure Detection, Fault Identification, Live Code Upgrade, and Stable Storage, showing how they are respected in Erlang and followed by some examples from practice.
Bio
Joe Armstrong is the principal inventor of Erlang and coined the term "Concurrency Oriented Programming". At Ericsson he developed Erlang and was chief architect of the Erlang/OTP system. In 1998 he formed Bluetail, which developed all its products in Erlang. In 2003 he obtain his PhD from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He is author of the book "Software for a concurrent world".
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Oct 30, 2009