"Systems that run forever self-heal and scale" by Joe Armstrong (2013) on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2023.
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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.
Pointed to as the canonical pitch for Erlang's fault-tolerance and self-healing model.
“is a great talk too.”
3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
It wasn't a video pitching the language and certainly not drawing any explicit parallels to modern practices. Just something that got me thinking about the distributed concurrency system of erlang for the first time in a decade. Here is a conference talk that is a pitch, if that's what you're looking for: ▶ this video
in “Flawless – Durable execution engine for Rust” · View on HN
"Systems that run forever self-heal and scale" by Joe Armstrong (2013) [0] is a great talk too. [0] ▶ this video
in “What's special about Erlang and Elixir?” · View on HN
Here's you some examples to learn from. Most are old enough that patents have expired: Why Do Computers Stop and What Can Be Done About It? (1985) [link] Their NonStop Architecture [link] QNX's systems are ultra-reliable, too [link] OpenVMS clusters' uptime was years to decades & mixed CPU ISA's [link] Systems that run forever and self-heal (Armstrong) ▶ this video Microreboots [link] Minix 3: Microkernel-based, self-healing, POSIX OS [link]
in “Ask HN: Best practices for self-healing apps?” · View on HN