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Let It Crash ... Except When You Shouldn't

Presented by Steve Vinoski on Sep 20, 2011 Length 00:58:20     Download: MP3
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Architecture & Design
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QCon London 2011 ,
Erlang ,
QCon ,
Functional Programming ,
Reliability ,
Conferences ,
Programming
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Summary
Steve Vinoski explains how to avoid some of the Erlang errors that can bring down a system starting from the premise that not all the crashes are welcome as the “Let It Crash” philosophy might suggest.

Bio
Steve Vinoski is the author of "Toward Integration" by IEEE Internet Computing, and has written for magazines such as C/C++ Users Journal and C++ Report and is the co-author of Advanced CORBA Programming with C++ (APC) with Michi Henning. He is currently a member of technical staff at Verivue. He previously worked as chief architect for IONA Technologies, HP, Apollo Computer and Texas Instruments.

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