{"id":72,"date":"2008-05-27T02:06:11","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T06:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2008-05-27T02:06:11","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T06:06:11","slug":"joe-armstrong-erlang-and-rpc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/2008\/05\/27\/joe-armstrong-erlang-and-rpc\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Armstrong, Erlang, and RPC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/armstrongonsoftware.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/road-we-didnt-go-down.html\">Joe Armstrong explains the background of the distributed computing capabilities within Erlang<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I find postings like Joe&#8217;s highly valuable. Few among us are language designers, so rarely do those of us who aren&#8217;t get a first-hand account from someone who is as to why and how something within a given language&#8217;s design came to be. Joe describes the distribution primitives that Erlang provides as well as their composability; it might seem simple, but anyone who&#8217;s written non-trivial distributed computing infrastructure knows that choosing the right primitives and making the right design trade-offs is anything but simple. This explains why I continue to be so impressed with the design choices and trade-offs Joe and crew made for Erlang &mdash; I&#8217;ve simply never seen any distributed computing infrastructure so elegant and yet so practical and capable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Armstrong explains the background of the distributed computing capabilities within Erlang. I find postings like Joe&#8217;s highly valuable. Few among us are language designers, so rarely do those of us who aren&#8217;t get a first-hand account from someone who is as to why and how something within a given language&#8217;s design came to be. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,4,93,100],"tags":[76,140],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-distributed-systems","category-erlang","category-languages","category-rpc","tag-distribution","tag-erlang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","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=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}