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Erlang: The Movie

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Functional programmingDistributed systems

What it is

A short film about the Erlang language, showing telecom systems built from lightweight processes and demonstrating hot code swapping. It is an edited version of the original Ericsson video.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN treats it as a classic that shows what Erlang was built for: robust, concurrent telecom systems with live upgrades.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2017, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “this is truly a gem”

    Great explanation of Erlang's benefits for robust systems

    jimbokun, 2018-12 · Strong recommendation · in “Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from the trenches”

  2. “Their original video demo of hot code swapping is also a classic worth checking out”

    Classic demo of hot code swapping

    SkyMarshal, 2017-05 · Recommendation · in “Let's Encrypt OCSP and Issuance Outage Postmortem”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: erlang, hot code swapping, telecom, concurrency, fault tolerance

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