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Presentation: Erlang - software for a concurrent world

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We get more and more cores in our CPUs, but does our software run linearly faster, or even close to that? In most cases - no. We have hit a trend change when it comes to faster CPUs. We will get more and more cores, but each core will be slower as the number of cores increase. How fast will your software run in a few years?

In his talk, Joe Armstrong introduces Erlang and the ideas of Concurrent Oriented Programming. Erlang is designed for fault-tolerance and because of the message-passing, share-nothing solution - scalability if built-in. Joe talks about the language, the philosophy behind the language, the implementation and about a number of commercial applications which are written in Erlang.

See the one hour presentation from JAOO 2007 at http://www.infoq.com/presentations/erlang-software-for-a-concurrent-world.

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  • video stops at 16:46.

    by Lars Vonk,

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    The video and presentation stops at 16:46. Am I the only one or is the video broken?

    - Lars

  • Re: video stops at 16:46.

    by Diana Baciu,

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    Hi Lars

    I just tested it and it seem to be working fine
    Diana

  • Re: video stops at 16:46.

    by Lars Vonk,

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    Works fine for me again... Must have been my connection or so. Thanks.

  • Download slides presentation

    by paul de schacht,

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    Hello,
    is it possible to download the slides of this excellent presentation ? Thanks - Paul

  • Flash 9?

    by Piotr Usewicz,

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    Guys... Flash 10 should be allowed too watch the video.

  • Re: Download slides presentation

    by art ing,

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    hello where is the presentation ?

  • mp3

    by shane berry,

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    Does anyone know how I can convert the audio to mp3 format, so I can listen to it on the road?

  • Re: Download slides presentation

    by Allen Montejo,

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    It would be great if we have a function here that we can download the presentation with the slide.

  • Re: Flash 9?

    by Tarjei Knapstad,

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    Flash 10 is still a beta product, why on earth should InfoQ be required to support a prerelease?

  • Re: Download slides presentation

    by Floyd Marinescu,

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    Sorry Lars, slide downloads were only available to people who attended JAOO.

  • Not just concurrency...

    by Michael Neale,

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    One of the nicest things about erlang, which no one talks about, is how it is designed for ultra reliable software. Carrier grade etc. People seem to be used to unreliable terrible software these days, and would rather have things cheap (and disposable). However, erlang promises a higher grade of reliability then I think people are used to. Thats the greatest thing about it for me. The concurrency stuff is a nice side effect.

  • Re: Not just concurrency...

    by Debasish Ghosh,

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    Steve Vinoski has blogged a lot about Erlang reliability. Check out steve.vinoski.net/blog. Also there are quite a few posts in Erlang forums that describe how single assignment, immutability etc. make Erlang a great platform for designing reliable systems. I am +1 with you that reliability is the #1 USP for Erlang.

  • Re: mp3

    by Mykola Gurov,

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    you could download the .flv and then convert it with the ffmpeg dropping out the video track. But you would miss the slides :(

  • What a wonderful talk!

    by Stephen Muga,

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    When this talk came out, I was only 12.5 years old and barely knew anything about programming. 12 years later, here I am watching the video. It was a great video. Well laid-out. The responsive slides are a nice touch, too! I had a bit of a laugh when one the slides postulated that the processors in 2019 would have a million cores. Haha. It's 2020 and the highest core count in a single CPU is 128. And that's just enterprise CPU. At the consumer level, 64 cores may be the highest. Sadly, Moore's Law may be dead. The best way to write and run a highly parallel program begins with first building a cluster of N nodes. That's how I got here. Anyway, cheers!

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