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"Systems that run forever self-heal and scale" by Joe Armstrong (2013)

Name: "Systems that run forever self-heal and scale" by Joe Armstrong (2013)
Description: Joe Armstrong's Strange Loop 2013 talk on building large scalable systems from small isolated parallel components. It covers detecting and correcting errors at run time, changing code while it runs, and how Erlang embodies these principles.

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2 HN users recommended this talk in 2 different months between 2023 and 2023.

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Pointed to as the canonical pitch for Erlang's fault-tolerance and self-healing model.

Joe Armstrong's Strange Loop 2013 talk on building large scalable systems from small isolated parallel components. It covers detecting and correcting errors at run time, changing code while it runs, and how Erlang embodies these principles.

Pull quote: “is a great talk too.” (HN, 2023)

Also tagged: fault-tolerant distributed systems, erlang, joe armstrong, fault tolerance, concurrency, otp

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Recommends POiNTx May 2023 under What's special about Erlang and Elixir?

Great Joe Armstrong talk on self-healing, scalable systems

"Systems that run forever self-heal and scale" by Joe Armstrong (2013) [0] is a great talk too. [0] [this video]

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Recommends dogleash October 2023 under Flawless – Durable execution engine for Rust

Conference talk pitching Erlang's distributed concurrency model

It wasn't a video pitching the language and certainly not drawing any explicit parallels to modern practices. Just something that got me thinking about the distributed concurrency system of erlang for the first time in a decade. Here is a conference talk that is a pitch, if that's what you're looking for: [this video]

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Citations, criticism and jokes

Cites it nickpsecurity February 2023 under Ask HN: Best practices for self-healing apps?

Armstrong talk on self-healing systems in a list of examples

Here's you some examples to learn from. Most are old enough that patents have expired: Why Do Computers Stop and What Can Be Done About It? (1985) [link] Their NonStop Architecture [link] QNX's systems are ultra-reliable, too [link] OpenVMS clusters' uptime was years to decades & mixed CPU ISA's [link] Systems that run forever and self-heal (Armstrong) [this video] Microreboots [link] Minix 3: Microkernel-based, self-healing, POSIX OS [link]

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