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Systems that Never Stop (and Erlang)

Presented by Joe Armstrong on Oct 30, 2009

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QCon London 2009
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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 principle 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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Greate presentation! by Leandro Coutinho Posted Nov 2, 2009 12:39 PM
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    Greate presentation!

    Nov 2, 2009 12:39 PM by Leandro Coutinho

    He is very funny. Great presentation.
    He could make four more presentations explaining the other "elements" that are part of Erlang: Concurrent Programming, Multicore, Concurrency Oriented Programming, and Functional Programming.

    It would be awesome!

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