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Fault Tolerance 101

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Summary

Joe Armstrong discusses how fault tolerance relates to scalability and concurrency, and how Erlang helps build fault-tolerant systems on multi-core clusters.

Bio

Joe Armstrong is the principal 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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“BUILD STUFF” Conference is a Software Development Conference created for developers, team leaders, software architects and technical project managers. Our goal is to bring world class speakers to share innovations, latest developments, new trends and directions in software development world to the Baltics.

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May 25, 2014

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  • sound quality

    by etienne adam,

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    I would have loved to hear this talk. Too bad the sound is saturated... Awefull

  • Re: sound quality

    by Charles Humble,

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    Hi Etienne,

    Yes sorry - the sound really wasn't too great on this one.

    Thankfully we recorded Joe giving a slightly updated version of this talk at QCon London where the sound is quite a lot better.

    Charles Humble
    Head of editorial

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