May 2016
Intermediate to advanced
482 pages
15h 9m
English
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Chapter 1. Introduction
You need to implement a fault-tolerant, scalable, soft real-time system with requirements for high availability. It has to be event-driven and react to external stimuli, load, and failure. It must always be responsive. You have heard, rightfully so, of many success stories telling you Erlang is the right tool for the job. And indeed it is—but while Erlang is a powerful programming language, it’s not enough on its own to group these features all together and build complex reactive systems. To get the job done correctly, quickly, and efficiently, you also need middleware, reusable libraries, tools, design principles, and a programming model that tells you how to architect and distribute your system.
Our goal with this book is to explore multiple facets of availability and scalability, as well as related topics such as concurrency, distribution, and fault tolerance, in the context of the Erlang programming language and its OTP framework. Erlang/OTP was created when the team at the Ericsson Computer Science Laboratory (CS Lab) set out to investigate how they could efficiently develop the next generation of telecommunications systems in an industry where time to market was becoming critical. This was before the Web, before tablets and smartphones, massively multiuser online gaming, messaging, and the Internet of Things.
At that time, the only systems that required the levels of scalability and fault tolerance we take for granted today were boring phone switches. ...
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