Why Learn Erlang?

Clojure/West lightning talk showing Clojure programmers how they can improve their production debugging skills with lessons from Erlang.

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1. Why Learn Erlang? Reid Draper Erlang hacker at Basho Tuesday, March 19, 13
2. A dynamically-typed functional language with a focus on concurrency. Tuesday, March 19, 13
3. My goal is not to turn you into Erlang developers, but to see what you can learn from Erlang. Tuesday, March 19, 13
4. So here are some things the Erlang community uses that have proven useful in production systems. Tuesday, March 19, 13
5. Yes I know some of them are possible in Clojure today... Tuesday, March 19, 13
6. Most of these are for debugging issues on a running system. Tuesday, March 19, 13
7. A remote REPL 1. Tuesday, March 19, 13
8. Dynamic tracing 2. Tuesday, March 19, 13
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10. Code reloading 3. Tuesday, March 19, 13
11. Restartable components 4. Tuesday, March 19, 13
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