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Protocols - The Glue for Applications
Torben Hoffmann talks about how to design systems with asynchronous message passing between processes that do not share any memory.
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Thinking in a Highly Concurrent, Mostly-functional Language
Francesco Cesarini illustrates how the Erlang way of thinking about problems leads to scalable and fault-tolerant designs, describing 3 ways of clustering Erlang nodes within the server side domain.
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0 – 100 MPH - Launching a New Product at Scale
Dan Macklin explains why bet365 has adopted Erlang as a core development platform and goes through the highs and lows of managing change in one of the world's biggest on-line bookmakers.
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Let It Crash! The Erlang Approach to Building Reliable Services
Brian Troutwine examines how functional programming and other concepts championed by Erlang can yield reactive services with just a change in thinking and a different approach to design.
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Sweet Elixir! A Gentle Introduction to Erlang’s Cute Younger Brother Elixir
Ryan Cromwell introduces Elixir, a , functional distributed meta programming language inspired by Ruby and compiling to Erlang VM, covering pattern matching, pipelines and tail-call recursion.
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Erlang Patterns Matching Business Needs
Torben Hoffmann shares a number of patterns from Erlang systems, modeled through Object-Process Methodology, discussing their impact on business needs.
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That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the Next Level at WhatsApp
Rick Reed shares scalability and reliability insights, techniques, and hacks used and learned developing WhatsApp on an Erlang/FreeBSD infrastructure.
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Erjang - With the JVM Under the Hood
Kresten Krab Thorup introduces Erjang, an Erlang VM based on the JVM, disclosing some of its internal workings and challenges building it.
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Planning for Overload
Fred Hebert introduces two strategies for handling overload -load-shedding and back-pressure- along with different ways to make them work in Erlang focusing on the importance of planning for overload.
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Scaling HTTP Connections
Benoît Chesneau discusses creating, scaling and reusing HTTP connections, summarizing techniques used to reduce memory usage in Erlang and ways to handle massive client connections efficiently.
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10 Billion a Day, 100 Milliseconds Per: Monitoring Real-Time Bidding at AdRoll
Brian Troutwine shares insight on using Erlang for a highly concurrent and very low latency bidding system implemented by Adroll.
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Fault Tolerance 101
Joe Armstrong discusses fault tolerant systems, summarizing the key features of Erlang and showing how they can be used for programming fault-tolerant and scalable systems on multi-core clusters.
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