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Erlang Concurrency, What’s The Fuss?

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Summary

Erlang is built on 3 components: language, OTP, and VM. Francesco Cesarini explains the role played by each component in order to ensure Erlang’s highly successful concurrency model which has been used in communication systems for more than 15 years. The presentation is accompanied by live demos and many questions are taken from the audience.

Bio

Francesco Cesarini is the founder and CTO of Erlang Training and Consulting. He has used Erlang on a daily basis for almost 15 years, having started his career as an intern at Ericsson's computer science lab with the inventors of Erlang. He is also the co-author of Erlang Programming, (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596518189/).

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Jul 04, 2009

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