Comments on: Erlang: It’s About Reliability http://steve.vinoski.net/blog/2008/05/01/erlang-its-about-reliability/ Ask forgiveness, not permission. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:09:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: steve http://steve.vinoski.net/blog/2008/05/01/erlang-its-about-reliability/#comment-891 steve Sun, 04 May 2008 02:36:11 +0000 http://steve.vinoski.net/blog/?p=66#comment-891 BTW, <a href="http://www.erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2003-April/008647.html" rel="nofollow">here is a great email from Joe Armstrong</a> discussing some of the thinking behind how Erlang approaches the handling of failures. BTW, here is a great email from Joe Armstrong discussing some of the thinking behind how Erlang approaches the handling of failures.

]]> By: Dean http://steve.vinoski.net/blog/2008/05/01/erlang-its-about-reliability/#comment-883 Dean Sat, 03 May 2008 05:36:44 +0000 http://steve.vinoski.net/blog/?p=66#comment-883 16: If Twitter is using Erlang, it's certainly a very bad example, considering the number of spectacular crashes and day long downtimes they have experienced these past few months. More seriously, no, they don't use Erlang, and they have moved away from Ruby on Rails (the article on Techcrunch is actually behind: they started moving away from RoR months ago). 16: If Twitter is using Erlang, it’s certainly a very bad example, considering the number of spectacular crashes and day long downtimes they have experienced these past few months.

More seriously, no, they don’t use Erlang, and they have moved away from Ruby on Rails (the article on Techcrunch is actually behind: they started moving away from RoR months ago).

]]> By: Dionysius http://steve.vinoski.net/blog/2008/05/01/erlang-its-about-reliability/#comment-875 Dionysius Fri, 02 May 2008 16:31:50 +0000 http://steve.vinoski.net/blog/?p=66#comment-875 Isn't Twitter using Erlang for their high-transaction component and Ruby for the rest? You can hack just about any language to do just about anything, but the syntax of the language shapes how you think about programming. I see this as the great strength of Erlang: it teaches programmers to think about concurrency and parallelism. Isn’t Twitter using Erlang for their high-transaction component and Ruby for the rest?

You can hack just about any language to do just about anything, but the syntax of the language shapes how you think about programming. I see this as the great strength of Erlang: it teaches programmers to think about concurrency and parallelism.

]]> By: My daily readings 05/02/2008 « Strange Kite http://steve.vinoski.net/blog/2008/05/01/erlang-its-about-reliability/#comment-869 My daily readings 05/02/2008 « Strange Kite Fri, 02 May 2008 11:38:00 +0000 http://steve.vinoski.net/blog/?p=66#comment-869 [...] Erlang: It’s About Reliability :: Steve Vinoski’s Blog [...] [...] Erlang: It’s About Reliability :: Steve Vinoski’s Blog [...]

]]> By: EwanSilver.com » Reliability http://steve.vinoski.net/blog/2008/05/01/erlang-its-about-reliability/#comment-868 EwanSilver.com » Reliability Fri, 02 May 2008 10:05:07 +0000 http://steve.vinoski.net/blog/?p=66#comment-868 [...] Vinoski talking about reliability (in particular my favourite: Erlang) To achieve reliability, you have to accept [...] [...] Vinoski talking about reliability (in particular my favourite: Erlang) To achieve reliability, you have to accept [...]

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