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rlang solves one of the most pressing problems facing
developers today: how to write reliable, concurrent,
high-performance systems. It's used worldwide by
companies who need to produce reliable, efficient, and
scalable applications. Invest in learning Erlang now.
Moore's Law is the observation that the amount you can
do on a single chip doubles every two years. But Moore's
Law is taking a detour. Rather than producing faster and
faster processors, companies such as Intel and AMD are
producing multi-core devices: single chips containing
two, four, or more processors. If your programs aren't
concurrent, they'll only run on a single processor at a
time. Your users will think that your code is slow.
Erlang is a programming language designed for building
highly parallel, distributed, fault-tolerant systems. It
has been used commercially for many years to build
massive fault-tolerated systems that run for years with
minimal failures. Erlang programs run seamlessly on
multi-core computers: this means your Erlang program
should run a lot faster on a 4 core processor than on a
single core processor, all without you having to change
a line of code. Erlang combines ideas from the world of
functional programming with techniques for building
fault-tolerant systems to make a powerful language for
building the massively parallel, networked applications
of the future. This book presents Erlang and functional
programming in the familiar Pragmatic style. And it's
written by Joe Armstrong, one of the creators of Erlang.
It includes example code you'll be able to build upon.
In addition, the book contains the full source code for
two interesting applications: A SHOUTcast server which
you can use to stream music to every computer in your
house, and a full-text indexing and search engine that
can index gigabytes of data. Learn how to write programs
that run on dozens or even hundreds of local and remote
processors. See how to write robust applications that
run even in the face of network and hardware failure,
using the Erlang programming language |
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