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The Do's and Don'ts of Error Handling • Joe Armstrong • GOTO 2018

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  • A classic. People kept recommending it from 2018 to 2022.
  • Presented by Joe Armstrong, co-creator of Erlang

Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Distributed systemsSoftware designConcurrency and parallelismFault tolerance and failureFunctional programming

Joe Armstrong explains how to build fault-tolerant systems by letting processes fail and recover rather than trying to prevent all errors.

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Chicago 2018. #gotocon #gotochgo gotochgo.com Joe Armstrong - Principal Inventor of the Erlang Programming Language ABSTRACT Handling errors in programs is tricky. We want to write systems that work reasonable well even if there are errors in the code. This is possible, and the results have been used in production systems for many years. This talk outlines the do's and don'ts of error handling. Things you should do if you want to write fault tolerant code, and things you should not do. I will argue that making fault-tolerant and scalable systems is possible if you [...] Download slides and read the full abstract here: gotochgo.com/2018/sessions/352 twitter.com/GOTOcon linkedin.com/company/goto- instagram.com/goto_con facebook.com/GOTOConferences #ErrorHandling #Erlang #FaultTolerance #JoeArmstrong CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

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What people say. Recommended as a classic talk on fault tolerance and the Erlang philosophy of error handling.

raghavaon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?”

Blockchains Are a Bad Idea (James Mickens) link I find almost all from GOTO 2018 very insightful. link esp ones listed below. GOTO 2018 • The Do's and Don'ts of Error Handling • Joe Armstrong link to this video GOTO 2018 • Pragmatic Event-Driven Microservices • Allard Buijze link GOTO 2018 • Why Business Cases are Toxic • Chris Matts link GOTO 2018 • Unconditional Code • Michael Feathers link
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On “Phoenix 1.7 is View-less”

…Elixir/Erlang in terms of fault-tolerance and scalability 2. "Using the Beam to Fight COVID-19" - link ; this highlights a real-world use of Elixir and the speciality of how the BEAM works using an actor model which I found fascinating. Should get your excited about the possibilities of this language. 3. "The Do's and Don'ts of Error Handling" - link to this video ; this talk by Joe Armstrong, inventor of Erlang, again highlights the shift in thinking about error handling and failure recovery. Not Elixir specific, but since Elixir has it's roots in Erlang it's well worth listening to this talk, which is conceptual and not code-centric. None of the videos above are Phoenix or LiveView but they should…
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sidmitraon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Automatically Make Unit Tests”

Type checking, compile-time errors won't check if the program you wrote is correct, only that it's internally consistent. That is an entirely different thing than checking for correctness. You do need a layer of tests that actually try to prove that given some input your program actually does what it's supposed to do. That is hard to automate. Joe Armstrong(of the Erlang fame), talks about this a bit here: link to this video I've pointed to a specific timestamp, but there might be more details somewhere else in that talk.
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