{"id":24,"date":"2007-10-31T21:15:51","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T02:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/31\/reliability-with-erlang\/"},"modified":"2007-10-31T21:15:51","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T02:15:51","slug":"reliability-with-erlang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/31\/reliability-with-erlang\/","title":{"rendered":"Reliability with Erlang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard a lot by now about Erlang&#8217;s concurrency capabilities, and in fact that&#8217;s what I covered in my Sept.\/Oct. <a href=\"http:\/\/computer.org\/internet\/\">Internet Computing<\/a> &#8220;Toward Integration&#8221; column, <a href=\"http:\/\/dsonline.computer.org\/portal\/pages\/dsonline\/2007\/10\/w5tow.html\"><em>Concurrency with Erlang<\/em><\/a>. But concurrency is only part of the story &mdash; Erlang also provides outstanding support for building highly-reliable software. My latest column, <em>Reliability with Erlang<\/em>, first describes some of the problems that highly-reliable systems face, and then explains some of Erlang&#8217;s core primitives that provide a solid foundation for reliable systems. It&#8217;s available in <a href=\"http:\/\/computer.org\/portal\/pages\/dsonline\/2007\/12\/w6tow.xml\">HTML<\/a> and <a href=\"\/pdf\/IEEE-Reliability_with_Erlang.pdf\">PDF<\/a> formats.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, I can&#8217;t recommend enough that you pick up a copy of Joe Armstrong&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pragprog.com\/titles\/jaerlang\"><em>Programming Erlang<\/em><\/a>. It&#8217;s a truly excellent book that has deeply and positively affected the way I think about designing, building, and implementing software systems. As I mentioned in my columns, my only disappointment with Erlang is that I didn&#8217;t discover it 10 years ago when it was first open-sourced, as it could have saved me a ton of time and trouble in my middleware development efforts over the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard a lot by now about Erlang&#8217;s concurrency capabilities, and in fact that&#8217;s what I covered in my Sept.\/Oct. Internet Computing &#8220;Toward Integration&#8221; column, Concurrency with Erlang. But concurrency is only part of the story &mdash; Erlang also provides outstanding support for building highly-reliable software. My latest column, Reliability with Erlang, first describes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-column","category-erlang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}