erlang - the next big thing?

Slide 1: erlang - the next big thing? tim lossen reject conf berlin 2007-09-18 1 1

Slide 2: history • ericsson • joe armstrong • since 1987 2 2

Slide 3: strengths • concurrency • distribution • fault-tolerance 3 3

Slide 4: architecture • „everything is a process“ • nodes • messages 4 4

Slide 5: processes • very lightweight • isolated 5 5

Slide 6: error handling • „let it crash“ • worker / supervisor 6 6

Slide 7: hype potential? 7 7

Slide 8: pro • trend: multi-core CPUs • joe: „now it‘s payback time!“ 8 8

Slide 9: pro • how to scale internet apps? • clustering! 9 9

Slide 10: pro • availability of internet apps? • erlang: record uptimes 10 10

Slide 11: pro • pragmatic book • buzz 11 11

Slide 12: contra • lack of libraries / tools • not general-purpose 12 12

Slide 13: contra • unusual syntax • functional programming! 13 13

Slide 14: conclusion: hot - but will not explode 14 14

Slide 15: „[programming in erlang] imparts the pleasant feeling of having your brains smashed out by a large gold brick wrapped with a slice of lemon.“ -- fbg111 on reddit.com 15 15