How to build distributed applications with Erlang
summary
Erlang and Elixir are presented as functional languages for building concurrent, highly reliable, and scalable applications, with clustering highlighted as a core strength. The talk explains basic concepts and shows how to create a distributed application using the OTP libraries. It also gives real-world use cases demonstrating how technologies used by companies like Facebook and WhatsApp can be applied in smaller projects.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:24Speaker background
- 2:51Erlang processes and supervision
- 5:03Distributed basics
- 6:08Building an Erlang cluster
- 8:50Node communication
- 12:10Scaling with clusters
- 14:27Active user monitoring
- 16:53Shared nothing best practices
- 18:42Sync vs async calls
- 22:23OTP getting started
- 23:48Cross-cluster integration
- 26:46Real integration example
- 27:08Erlang in Italy
- 28:59Summary
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