May 2016
Intermediate to advanced
482 pages
15h 9m
English
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Preface
This book is what you get if you put together an Erlang enthusiast who worked on the R1 release of OTP in 1996 and a Distributed Systems specialist who discovered a decade later how Erlang/OTP allows you to focus on the real challenges of systems development while avoiding accidental difficulties.
By describing how OTP behaviors are built and why they are needed, we show you how to use them to architect standalone nodes. In our original proposal to O’Reilly, we stopped here. But when writing the book, we decided to push the bar further, documenting our practices, design decisions, and common pitfalls when architecting a distributed system. These patterns, through a set of design choices and tradeoffs we make, give us the scalability, reliability, and availability for which Erlang/OTP is well known. Contrary to popular belief, this does not happen magically or out of the box, but it sure is much easier to achieve than with any other programming language out there that does not emulate Erlang’s semantics nor run on the BEAM virtual machine.
Francesco: Why This Book?
Someone once told me that writing books is a bit like having children. Once you’ve written one and are holding your paper copy, excitement takes over, you quickly forget the hard work and sacrifices, and you want to start writing another one. I’ve been intending to write the sequel to Erlang Programming (O’Reilly) since first holding the paper copy in June 2009. I had no children of my own when I started this project, ...
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