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Erlang - software for a concurrent world

Presented by Joe Armstrong on May 27, 2008 02:35 AM

Community
Architecture
Topics
Language Design ,
Programming
Tags
Functional Programming ,
Distributed Programming ,
Erlang ,
JAOO Conference ,
Concurrency
Summary
How do you program a multicore computer? Easy - do it in Erlang. Erlang is a concurrent functional programming language designed for programming fault-tolerant systems. With share-nothing semantics and pure message passing, Erlang programs scales on multicore computers. In this talk, Joe introduces Erlang, the ideas of Concurrent Oriented Programming and commercial applications written in Erlang.

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".

About the conference
JAOO is the premier European developer conference on software technology, methods and best practices. The conference presents in-depth presentations and tutorials by researchers, engineers and trend-setters in software engineering and technology.

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video stops at 16:46. by Lars Vonk Posted May 27, 2008 1:42 PM
Re: video stops at 16:46. by Diana Plesa Posted May 27, 2008 3:34 PM
Re: video stops at 16:46. by Lars Vonk Posted May 28, 2008 1:23 AM
Download slides presentation by paul de schacht Posted May 30, 2008 7:09 AM
Re: Download slides presentation by Floyd Marinescu Posted Jun 7, 2008 4:43 PM
Flash 9? by Piotr Usewicz Posted Jun 1, 2008 3:21 PM
Re: Flash 9? by Tarjei Knapstad Posted Jun 5, 2008 3:17 AM
Re: Download slides presentation by art ing Posted Jun 2, 2008 2:33 AM
mp3 by shane berry Posted Jun 3, 2008 1:30 PM
Re: Download slides presentation by Allen Montejo Posted Jun 3, 2008 7:07 PM
Re: mp3 by Mykola Gurov Posted Dec 17, 2008 2:25 PM
Not just concurrency... by Michael Neale Posted Jun 7, 2008 6:04 PM
Re: Not just concurrency... by Debasish Ghosh Posted Jun 8, 2008 11:42 AM
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    video stops at 16:46.

    May 27, 2008 1:42 PM by Lars Vonk

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

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    Re: video stops at 16:46.

    May 27, 2008 3:34 PM by Diana Plesa

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

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    Re: video stops at 16:46.

    May 28, 2008 1:23 AM by Lars Vonk

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

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    Download slides presentation

    May 30, 2008 7:09 AM by paul de schacht

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

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    Flash 9?

    Jun 1, 2008 3:21 PM by Piotr Usewicz

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

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    Re: Download slides presentation

    Jun 2, 2008 2:33 AM by art ing

    hello where is the presentation ?

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    mp3

    Jun 3, 2008 1:30 PM by shane berry

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

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    Re: Download slides presentation

    Jun 3, 2008 7:07 PM by Allen Montejo

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

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    Re: Flash 9?

    Jun 5, 2008 3:17 AM by Tarjei Knapstad

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

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    Re: Download slides presentation

    Jun 7, 2008 4:43 PM by Floyd Marinescu

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

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    Not just concurrency...

    Jun 7, 2008 6:04 PM by Michael Neale

    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.

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    Re: Not just concurrency...

    Jun 8, 2008 11:42 AM by Debasish Ghosh

    Steve Vinoski has blogged a lot about Erlang reliability. Check out http://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.

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    Re: mp3

    Dec 17, 2008 2:25 PM by Mykola Gurov

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

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