Videos in category Erlang
Summary Ralph Johnson and Joe Armstrong discuss their ideas about parallel programming - whether shared memory is harmful, the place of message passing, fault tolerance, the importance of protocols and more. Bio Ralph Johnson, one of the GoF behind the Design Patterns book and behind the creation of the original Refactoring Browser, is now at the CS dept. at the UIUC and the leader of UIUC Patt...
Ralph Johnson, Joe Armstrong on the State of OOP
Summary Ralph Johnson and Joe Armstrong discuss the state of OOP, what Smalltalk got right/wrong and the image concept. Also: Joe decides he likes OOP as long as its done the Erlang way: focused on messaging. Bio Ralph Johnson, one of the GoF behind the Design Patterns book and behind the creation of the original Refactoring Browser, is now at the CS dept. at the UIUC and the leader of UIUC Pat...
Justin Sheehy on Riak
Summary Justin Sheehy explains how Riak was created with ideas from Amazon's Dynamo paper, Riak features and how Riak compares to other NoSQL solutions. Bio Justin Sheehy is the CTO of Basho Technologies, the company behind the creation of Webmachine and Riak. Most recently before Basho, he was a principal scientist at the MITRE Corporation and a senior architect for systems infrastructure at A...
Kresten Krab Thorup, Robert Virding Discuss the Erlang VM
Summary Kresten Krab Thorup and Robert Virding discuss the origins of Erlang, the state of the Erlang VM, integrating native code with Erlang etc. Also: the challenges of running Erjang/Erlang on the JVM. Bio Robert Virding worked at Ericsson and was one of the initial Erlang design group. Robert now works for the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) in a modelling and simulation group...
Kresten Krab Thorup on Erjang, JVM Languages, Kilim
Summary Kresten Krab Thorup talks about the Erjang project and explains the challenges of bringing Erlang to the JVM, using Kilim for lightweight processes, the implementation of tail recursion and much more. Bio Kresten Krab Thorup is CTO of Trifork, where he's responsible for technical strategy, researching future technologies, and the JAOO and QCon conferences. Kresten has worked on open sou...
Kresten Krab Thorup Discusses Programming Languages, Concurrency and Integration
Summary Kresten answers questions about current programming languages and problems they solve. He also tries to look at what is missing for addressing issues we face today such as concurrency. He discusses its importance and tries to portray the language that would take us to the next level helping to tackle these issues easily. Bio Kresten Krab Thorup is CTO of Trifork, where he's responsible ...
Erjang - A JVM-based Erlang VM
Summary Kresten Krab Thorup emphasizes existing problems with the Java concurrency model, explaining when to use Erjang, a JVM-based Erlang VM, built around the process and actor concepts. Bio Kresten Krab Thorup is CTO of Trifork, where he's responsible for technical strategy, researching future technologies, and the JAOO and QCon conferences. Kresten has worked on open source projects like GC...
RPC and its Offspring: Convenient, Yet Fundamentally Flawed
Summary In this presentation from QCon London 2009, Steve Vinoski discusses what RPC means, the origin and history of RPC, RFC 707, the origins of Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), the growth of the Internet, standardization, distributed objects, CORBA, DCOM, Java, SOAP, WS-*, the fundamental flaws in RPC, REST properties and constraints, REST vs RPC philosophy, Erlang reliability and co...
Luke Galea on Ruby and Erlang
Summary In this interview taped at FutureRuby, Luke Galea talks about his experience with building sites using Ruby and Merb as well as integrating them using Erlang in the messaging layer. Bio Luke Galea is the Director of Development for Avid Life Media, a Toronto based company that owns several large dating sites. He is the author of the Hyperactive Resource plugin for Rails and is active in...
Domain Specific Languages in Erlang
Summary This presentation examines the properties that make Erlang a great language for building Domain Specific Languages. - powerful parsing capabilities, runtime evaluation, and pattern matching are a few covered in this session. Along the way you may learn a thing or two about functional and concurrent programming. Bio Dennis Byrne is a writer, presenter and active member of the open source...