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Erlang: The Movie

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Programming languagesDistributed systemsElixir and ErlangConcurrency and parallelismFault tolerance and failure

Co-creators of Erlang demonstrate the language's concurrent processes, fault tolerance, and hot code reloading capabilities.

Demo of the Erlang programming language Ericsson Migrated from my Google Video account.

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What people say. Engineers frequently share this classic, iconic video to demonstrate Erlang's unique approach to concurrency and fault tolerance.

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u/miserlouin r/elixir • Recommends

Erlang: The Movie
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Erlang: The Movie
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lelfon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Erlang's Open Telecom Platform (OTP) Framework [video]”

And if you haven't seen it, here is some classic. “Erlang: the Movie”: — link to this video And sequel “Erlang: the Movie II”: — link Don't think wtf. Just watch.
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mndon Hacker News • Recommends

On “What's all this fuss about Erlang? (2007)”

There’s also “Erlang the Movie”; the designers of Erlang demo some of the qualities of the Erlang system in a delightful way: link to this video
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randomstudenton Hacker News • Recommends

On “Elixir in Depth – Reading and personal notes”

…valid input. Then, he shows how that doesn't block the rest of the requests. Using native BEAM (EDIT: BEAM = EVM = Erlang Virtual Machine) tools, he looks for the misbehaving process (the one running the infinite loop), prints some debug information and kills it. It's pretty impressive. Another great (and lighter) resource, is "Erlang the Movie" ( link to this video ). It shows the power of concurrency through independent processes, the default debug tools, and the power of hot code reloading. Don't miss the twist at the end.…
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StudentStuffon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Ericsson and T-Mobile ink $3.5B deal for 5G”

It is one of the core features of Erlang (a language developed by Ericsson), being able to rewrite code in production, with errors/crashes that break one thread not affecting another. Obligatory link to Erlang: The Movie (10min)- link to this video Note that they start crashing things in Erlang around minute 7, and fix them shortly thereafter. Meanwhile, their setup keeps calls that weren't directly involved in the crash alive and running unaffected.
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jballancon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Computer History Museum 2018 Fellow: Guido van Rossum”

> Clojure Alex Miller and Stuart Halloway immediately jump to mind as lieutenants that could jump in and take over without too much disruption. > Erlang Well, there's also Roberts and Mike (reference, for those not familiar: link to this video ).
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julienmarieon Hacker News • Mentions

On “What Erlang Taught Me About Distributed Systems”

I discovered Erlang in the late 2000s via its kinda weird and iconic video "Erlang the Movie" link to this video that prompted me to dig further. I was at the time an average developer. Erlang, and Joe Armstrong books and videos, made me understand things that other web-oriented languages ( Ruby, PHP... ) never really dug into at the time. Because the Erlang ecosystem is more than distribution. Distribution is a consequence of its design around concurrency and message passing and let-it-crash/auto-healing philosophy. Erlang, and after that Elixir, made me think differently about code and made me a better programmer.
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leocon Hacker News • Mentions

On “How I fell in love with Erlang”

It isn't entirely true though. The original Erlang guys made Erlang: The Movie link to this video and the sadly missed Joe Armstong made plenty of blog posts link and public appearances and expressed a number of strong opinions (though genially) link . Robert Virding's public profile is not as high, but he's by no means in hiding either. link — or indeed link )
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tomjakubowskion Hacker News • Mentions

On “Agentic coding deserves more than a chat box bolted onto VS Code”

The intro to Erlang: The Movie has a pretty boss anthem. (if you squint, Erlang/OTP is kind of an IDE, when you live in the REPL) link to this video
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u/balefrostin r/compsci • Mentions

On “What is the "secret handshake" of computer science?”

"Hello, Mike." "Hello, Joe! System working?" "Seems to be." "Okay, fine." link to this video
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