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What I learned from Erlang about resiliency in systems design (2019)

by embano1 mgasch.com published 2019-03-2811 min read

Failure in computer systems is inevitable. Adopting Erlang's philosophy of "Let it crash" at the many layers of abstractions in software can have a huge positive impact on resiliency.

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