The Erlang VM or How I Started Loving Parallel Progamming • Erik Stenman • GOTO 2013

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Aarhus 2013 http://gotocon.com Erik Stenman - Chief Erlang Wizard at Klarna ORIGINAL TALK TITLE The Erlang VM or How I Stopped Worrying and Started Loving Parallel Programming ABSTRACT Writing a 24/7 financial web services is quite hard. Writing scalable software is hard. Writing parallel programs is really hard. With the right tool though, it gets easier. In this talk I will present the Erlang VM: Beam. Beam implements message passing, process isolation, dynamic code loading, garbage collection and preemptive scheduling. This make it easier to write scalable 24/7 services, and it makes parallel programming feasible. I will also talk about how we have used these features at Klarna to build a system that successfully has handled an exponential traffic growth for over eight years. https://twitter.com/gotocon https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConference http://gotocon.com Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter