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The Soul of Erlang and Elixir • Sasa Juric • GOTO 2019

GOTO Conferences · 384K views · 2019-05-22 · 42:03

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Overview

Sasa Juric explains what makes Erlang and Elixir suited to server-side systems, focusing on the BEAM concurrency model rather than syntax or ecosystem. He demonstrates processes, supervision, and fault tolerance.

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It is HN's favorite pitch for Elixir and the BEAM, credited with convincing many people to adopt them.

Recommended by 16 HN people across 14 months · HN mentions 2019–2024

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lumannnn · 2024-06 · Strong recommendation

Check out this presentation :) "The Soul of Erlang and Elixir by Sasa Juric" Really one of the best presentations to show what you may get out of adopting Elixir. [VIDEO]

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sph · 2024-03 · Strong recommendation

From the author of this post, here's one of the best demos of Elixir, Erlang and modern distributed computing in general: "The Soul of Erlang and Elixir • Saša Jurić • GOTO 2019" - [VIDEO] When you feel sufficiently amazed by this demo, I also recommend the Elixir in Action book, by this same author, to get started with this incredible ecosystem and paradigm. --- It's hard to imagine a better platform than Erlang's for writing distributed and networked systems of any kind. I fell in love with Elixir in 2016 and have been using it full time since, first adopting as CTO in my previous company, now powering my new solo business. It's such a good language, with great community and stewardship, running on a rock solid platform that's so advanced compared to most popular languages today. Erlang was created 38 years ago, and it's good to see the ideas of Armstrong, Virding and Williams to be vindicated today. They simply were too far ahead of their time.

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jtwebman · 2021-06 · Strong recommendation

Almost no business application is written for performance at raw request speed. What Elixir brings is far more the that. Watch this if you want to understand why so many people fall in love with it. [VIDEO]

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