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Erlang for when you absolutely positively have to keep it running

Abstract:

Erlang is really not that terrifying. It is often pimped for its concurrency features but it was really build for availability. Multiple lightweight processes, supervision trees, per process heaps and hot reloading mean you can build highly available fault tolerant systems. Surprisingly erlang is quite lightweight memory wise - a very small footprint making it a great tool for supervisory agents and automation (escript makes it easy to script with it as well).

Speaker: Michael Neale