Dr. Erlang Love or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Crashing

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Workaday Wizard: Oct 23, 2009; by Pragmatica

MononcQc posted:

...Cool poo poo...

Post this in your blog.

E: Pressed post too soon:

What projects do people use Erlang in? By that I mean, what happened that made you go "I need Erlang for this!"?

Workaday Wizard fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Aug 13, 2013

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Workaday Wizard: Oct 23, 2009; by Pragmatica

Thanks for the replies.

MononcQc posted:

[*] Real Time Bidding software, because low-latency requirements (soft real time), massive levels of concurrency, and constant system overload (which Erlang rules at)

I don't know why I was under the impression that Erlang couldn't do low latency stuff.

Glad to hear it does.

# ¿ Aug 14, 2013 03:31

Workaday Wizard: Oct 23, 2009; by Pragmatica

MononcQc posted:

Nice! Good to hear.

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Oh and I can't believe I forgot to post this here, but I'm giving a free webcast for O'Reilly on Tuesday on Modern Server Application Design with Erlang for a high-level tour of building Erlang apps and how that compares to traditional things, then some general design ideals to keep in mind when using Erlang for that.

I hope it's gonna be good, although I'm still working on it as I type this.

Does O'Reilly archive webcasts?

I can't attend this one

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