Erlang and OTP in Action

Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About This Book

Introduction

1. Getting past pure Erlang: the OTP basics

Chapter 1. The Erlang/OTP platform

1.1. Concurrent programming with processes

1.1.1. Understanding concurrency

1.1.2. Erlang’s process model

1.1.3. Four process communication paradigms

1.1.4. Programming with processes in Erlang

1.2. Erlang’s fault tolerance infrastructure

1.2.1. How process links work

1.2.2. Supervision and trapping of exit signals

1.2.3. Layering processes for fault tolerance

1.3. Distributed Erlang

1.4. The Erlang runtime system and virtual machine

1.4.1. The scheduler

1.4.2. I/O and scheduling

1.4.3. Process isolation and the garbage collector ...