Making Reliable Distributed Systems in the Presence of Software Errors ↗
paperJoe Armstrong, PhD Thesis · December 2003
- Joe Armstrong’s PhD thesis defining the principles behind Erlang/OTP: concurrency-oriented programming, process isolation, and error recovery through supervision
- Argues that reliable systems must be built from unreliable components by isolating failures and encoding recovery strategies declaratively
- Introduces the six rules of Erlang: isolation, everything is a process, error detection across processes, fault detection is built-in, processes can be upgraded, and failures are handled by other processes