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The Do's and Don'ts of Error Handling • Joe Armstrong • GOTO 2018

GOTO Conferences · talk · Watch on YouTube

Distributed systemsFunctional programming

What it is

Joe Armstrong, inventor of Erlang, gives a GOTO Chicago 2018 talk on building fault-tolerant systems. He covers what to do and avoid when handling errors, arguing for letting processes fail and recover.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as a conceptual rather than code-heavy talk on failure recovery from Erlang's creator.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “I find almost all from GOTO 2018 very insightful.”

    Joe Armstrong on error handling, among insightful GOTO 2018 talks

    raghava, 2018-12 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?”

  2. “it's well worth listening to this talk, which is conceptual and not code-centric”

    Conceptual talk on error handling and failure recovery by Erlang's inventor

    frellus, 2022-12 · Recommendation · in “Phoenix 1.7 is View-less”

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Topics: joe armstrong, erlang, error handling, let it crash, fault tolerance

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