Diving into Erlang is a one-way ticket
summary
A pragmatic account of switching an enterprise workload: the author spends three months learning Erlang to parallelize an interest calculator that failed to scale in C/Java, implements and benchmarks it on one and several machines, and reports success; uses and extends Riak and RabbitMQ with plugins, writes a German Erlang OTP book, and argues Erlang’s model lets systems spawn 2^27 actors (theoretically) for massive concurrency, while warning about deployment, string handling, and operational costs.
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chapters (44)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:44Who am I
- 1:45Im not the greatest speaker
- 2:25I started programming
- 2:56The next big thing
- 4:00Java
- 4:32Palm PD
- 5:05Enterprise Java
- 5:52Interest Calculator
- 7:01OVA
- 7:26Interest calculation
- 8:18Im confronted
- 8:58Learning Erlang
- 9:23Writing books
- 9:50Free copies
- 10:54Its worth it
- 11:31German User Groups
- 12:30Java Code
- 12:56Functional Programming
- 14:21Distributed Systems
- 15:06Reassignment
- 16:28Erlang Platform
- 17:20Zookeeper
- 18:08Use cases
- 18:35Smart people
- 19:07Things will get dirty
- 19:33Not a perfect technology yet
- 20:05Its a precise machine
- 20:57Should you attend
- 21:40Questions
- 22:18Is it easier now
- 23:27Building on top of Erlang
- 24:07Enterprise customers
- 24:25Limitations
- 25:18Avoid them
- 26:01Reinvent the wheel
- 26:49Go for messaging
- 27:18Im just the user
- 28:05The current situation
- 28:52Massive concurrency
- 29:35Reusable implementations
- 30:58Stability
- 32:00Big Data
- 33:20Recursion
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