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Erlang: The Movie (Fixed Audio)

CH1LLW4VE · 42.8K views · 2016-11-12 · 11:32

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Overview

A 12-minute film in which Erlang's creators demonstrate the language's fault tolerance and live-system features, including phoning each other to show it working. This version has fixed audio.

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HN recommends it as a charming, concise demonstration of what makes Erlang special, from the people who built it.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2019–2021

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ashton314 · 2021-09 · Strong recommendation

This is almost certainly a reference to Erlang: The Movie [1] which is the most glorious 11 minutes of some programmers explaining how their creation works you will ever see. In the video, the three call each other to demonstrate what happens real-time in an Erlang system. For the impatient, the telephone conversation starts at about minute 3. [1]: [VIDEO]

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riobard · 2019-04 · Strong recommendation

Fred probably forgot to mention it, but Joe, Mike, and Robert starred in a short film Erlang: The Movie , a very fine and concise demonstration of fault-tolerance of Erlang. The film has some magic power that I cannot describe but made me watching it over and over again. YouTube link to the film with fixed audio: [VIDEO]

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ashton314 · 2021-09 · Reference

This is the same "movie", but the audio has been fixed to not play out of just the left ear: [VIDEO]

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