http://www.sheysrebellion.net/blog/2007/11/16/brain-dump/ I sleep with pillows on my head. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:37:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.sheysrebellion.net/blog/2007/11/16/brain-dump/comment-page-1/#comment-17616 Shey’s Rebellion » Blog Archive » On Erlang. Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:59:46 +0000 http://www.sheysrebellion.net/blog/?p=76#comment-17616 [...] Erlang lets me solve problems differently.  It has concurrency built into its DNA—it’s ideal for building fault-tolerant systems, it also supports hot swappable code– I wish I had it 6 years ago. The old system I worked on was a built on C/C++; if you’ve done worked with pthreads you know how painful it can be to debug a multi-threaded program.   Creating a performant and fault-tolerant system is immensely challenging and I was constantly fighting the language, not to mention that I had to come in to work at 5:30 AM to update the system with the latest code.  If I could go back in time I would build the server layer in Erlang. [...] [...] Erlang lets me solve problems differently.  It has concurrency built into its DNA—it’s ideal for building fault-tolerant systems, it also supports hot swappable code– I wish I had it 6 years ago. The old system I worked on was a built on C/C++; if you’ve done worked with pthreads you know how painful it can be to debug a multi-threaded program.   Creating a performant and fault-tolerant system is immensely challenging and I was constantly fighting the language, not to mention that I had to come in to work at 5:30 AM to update the system with the latest code.  If I could go back in time I would build the server layer in Erlang. [...]

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