The way GitHub helped Erlang and the way Erlang helped Github

Topics

Erlang,

Collaboration,

Teamwork,

Open Source,

Functional Programming,

Architecture,

Programming,

Agile,

Ruby on Rails,

github,

Source Control,

git

Tom Preston-Werner introduces Git and GitHub and answers some questions about GitHub's architecture and features. He also talks about its development process and explains that using Erlang was instrumental for making it robust. Kenneth Lundin then talks about the decision of Erlang/OTP team to move it to GitHub and how it helped increasing contributions from the community.

•  By  Tom Preston-Werner & Kenneth Lundin on Aug 16, 2010,
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