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ANN: Chicago ACM at Loyola Water Tower Wed February 11, 6:30p


Chicago ACM
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When: 6:30 PM Wednesday February 11, 2015
Where: Loyola Water Tower

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1. Erlang - Building Blocks for Global Distributed Systems
Sean Cribbs

Erlang is a computer language and runtime originally created for high-reliability telephony applications. Ericsson created Erlang in the late 1980’s to build Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) switches. These switches made possible the broadband we know today. In fact, British Telecom, a client of Ericsson, reported that the switches attained nine 9's reliability.

The Erlang-based system's careful language/runtime design, live upgrades, and interactive inspection of the running system all made this possible. Recently, a resurgence in the use of Erlang is due to its use in Internet-scale distributed systems.

In this talk, we'll discuss the motivations behind Erlang, the features that distinguish it from other software platforms, and the ways it simplifies building highly-available globally distributed services.
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Location
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Loyola Water Tower


About the group
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