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The Do's and Don'ts of Error Handling • Joe Armstrong • GOTO 2018

Joe Armstrong, inventor of Erlang, gives a GOTO Chicago 2018 talk on building fault-tolerant systems. He covers what to do and avoid when handling errors, arguing for letting processes fail and recover.

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a conceptual rather than code-heavy talk on failure recovery from Erlang's creator.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
GOTO Conferences
Topic
fault-tolerant error handling
Format
talk
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
2
HN mentions in dataset
3
Recommendation years in dataset
2018–2022

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • Blockchains Are a Bad Idea (James Mickens) [LINK] I find almost all from GOTO 2018 very insightful. [LINK] esp ones listed below. GOTO 2018 • The Do's and Don'ts of Error Handling • Joe Armstrong [VIDEO] GOTO 2018 • Pragmatic Event-Driven Microservices • Allard Buijze …

    raghava on Hacker News · 2018-12
    In Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?
  • Also, if I may, recommend two videos to watch which is what got me into Elixir in the first place. 1. "The Soul of Elixir and Erlang" - [LINK] ; this fast-paced talk by Sasa Juric will highlight exactly what is special about Elixir/Erlang in …

    frellus on Hacker News · 2022-12
    In Phoenix 1.7 is View-less

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