Erlang Solutions: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Erlang Factory 2014 - That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the Next Level at WhatsApp", the go-to talk showing how Erlang let a tiny team run a massive messaging system.
- 6 HN recommenders 10 months 2014–2022talkThe go-to talk showing how Erlang let a tiny team run a massive messaging system.
- 6 HN recommenders 7 months 2016–2026interviewHN uses it in debates about what OOP originally meant, since Kay's message-passing view lines up with Erlang's processes.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2019–2026talkHN recommends it for getting the inventors of major concurrency models together, disagreements included.
- 2 HN recommenders 3 months 2016–2022talkPointed to as the best source on Phoenix Presence internals and for combining Phoenix with Elm.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2016–2021talkRecommended as an exceptional whirlwind tour of the foundations of computer science.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2015–2019talkRecommended as a wonderful overview of the AGC architecture, though one commenter found it uninspiring.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2016–2018talkHN commenters cite it for the claim that process scaling beyond 28nm is uneconomic and for dark silicon.
Questions
Which Erlang Solutions video does Hacker News recommend most?
Erlang Factory 2014 - That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the Next Level at WhatsApp: recommended in 10 different months by 6 HN users between 2014 and 2022.
Is this every Erlang Solutions video?
No. Only videos that at least three different HN users linked, in at least three different months, with at least a sentence of their own commentary. That filter is what makes the list useful.
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