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Joe Armstrong on Erlang's Self-Healing Systems

Strange Loop Conference · Talk · YouTube title: "Systems that run forever self-heal and scale" by Joe Armstrong (2013)
Why it's here

Pointed to as the canonical pitch for Erlang's fault-tolerance and self-healing model.

What it covers

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.