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Great Joe Armstrong talk on self-healing, scalable systems
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"Systems that run forever self-heal and scale" by Joe Armstrong (2013) [0] is a great talk too. [0] this video
"Systems that run forever self-heal and scale" by Joe Armstrong (2013)
86K views · Mar 26, 2021 · 1:10:23 · 2 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2023
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.
Why Hacker News points people here: Pointed to as the canonical pitch for Erlang's fault-tolerance and self-healing model.
“is a great talk too.”HN comment, 2023
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“Here is a conference talk that is a pitch, if that's what you're looking for”
Conference talk pitching Erlang's distributed concurrency model
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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
“Systems that run forever and self-heal (Armstrong)”
Armstrong talk on self-healing systems in a list of examples
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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