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Erlang: The Movie

dawsdesign · 158.8K views · 2007-04-09 · 9:58

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Overview

A short film about the Erlang language, showing telecom systems built from lightweight processes and demonstrating hot code swapping. It is an edited version of the original Ericsson video.

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HN treats it as a classic that shows what Erlang was built for: robust, concurrent telecom systems with live upgrades.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2017–2021

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Functional programmingDistributed systems
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erlanghot code swappingtelecomconcurrencyfault tolerance

What people said

jimbokun · 2018-12 · Strong recommendation

I had never watched Erlang the Movie before, this is truly a gem: [VIDEO] This is a great way to explain the benefits of Erlang. Anyone who has tried to write robust, distributed systems should immediately see the benefits. Even all of these years later.

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SkyMarshal · 2017-05 · Recommendation

Their original video demo of hot code swapping is also a classic worth checking out: [VIDEO] That got a lot of programmers interested in Erlang ~10yrs ago.

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probst · 2021-01 · Reference

Hehe, shame this got down voted so much. It's actually a pretty hilarious Erlang joke. They made a video way back showcasing Erlang in the setting it was primarily used: telecom systems. In this video they keep calling and greeting each other. The video can be found here: [VIDEO]

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