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Jet is a simple OOP, dynamically typed, functional language that runs on the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM). Jet's syntax is Ruby-like syntax. - i2y/jet

Torben Hoffmann
CTO @ Erlang Solutions

Torben Hoffmann is CTO for Erlang Solutions. He has been active in the Erlang community for several years and has spoken at conferences world-wide. His first big Erlang related project was the introduction of Erlang as a technology to write a gateway in for Motorola Solutions in Denmark. Torben studied Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark.

Thinking like an Erlanger

The first encounter with Erlang is often a tough one since The Golden Trinity of Erlang - share nothing processes, fail-fast and failure handling - provides a mix of features not found in other languages.

In this talk we will spend most of the energy on how to design systems with asynchronous message passing between processes that do not share any memory.

Since processes are so cheap to create in the Erlang run-time one has to embrace designing with lots and lots of processes, which puts an emphasis on the interaction, or protocols, between the processes. For this we will look at Message Sequence…