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"Systems that run forever self-heal and scale" by Joe Armstrong (2013)

Strange Loop Conference · talk · Watch on YouTube

Distributed systemsFunctional programming

What it is

Joe Armstrong's Strange Loop 2013 talk on building large scalable systems from small isolated parallel components. It covers detecting and correcting errors at run time, changing code while it runs, and how Erlang embodies these principles.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Pointed to as the canonical pitch for Erlang's fault-tolerance and self-healing model.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2023, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “is a great talk too.”

    Great Joe Armstrong talk on self-healing, scalable systems

    POiNTx, 2023-05 · Recommendation · in “What's special about Erlang and Elixir?”

  2. “Here is a conference talk that is a pitch, if that's what you're looking for”

    Conference talk pitching Erlang's distributed concurrency model

    dogleash, 2023-10 · Recommendation · in “Flawless – Durable execution engine for Rust”

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Topics: erlang, joe armstrong, fault tolerance, concurrency, otp

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