Erlang
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Core Java
BEAM Supervision Trees and “Let It Crash”: What Java Services Can Steal from Erlang
Most Java code tries hard to never fail. Erlang takes the opposite view, and the idea travels better than you…
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Core Java
Let It Crash vs. Try-Catch: Erlang/BEAM Supervision Trees Against Java’s Exception Model
There’s a moment every Java developer has lived through: staring at a stack trace at 2 a.m., trying to figure…
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Software Development
Concurrency in Elixir
Erlang has been around for over 30 years and was built well before multi-core CPUs existed. Yet it’s a language…
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Software Development
Let it crash
“Let it crash” is a watchword in the Erlang world that has a pretty specific meaning in that context, but…
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Core Java
Erlang for Java Developers
You probably haven’t noticed, but it’s a couple of weeks since I last posted a blog. There is reason for…
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Core Java
Erlang vs Java memory architecture
I read a really, really interesting article on memory management strategies for the Erlang VM. It was written as a…
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