The systems issues addressed by the Reactive Manifesto are far from new. Highly concurrent event-driven approaches have been common for years in diverse areas from low-level hardware to large-scale distributed systems. What is new is the much broader availability of modern programming practices which allow developers to take advantage of these approaches in a clean, comprehensible, and extensible way.
 
This session will start with a brief tour along this evolutionary path, from...

In this talk, using the Erlang hacker's semi-official motto "Let it Crash!" as a lens, I'll speak to how radical simplicity of implementation, straight-forward runtime characteristics and discoverability of the running system lead to computer systems which have great success in networked, always-on deployments.

I will argue that while Erlang natively implements many features which aid the construction of such systems--functional programming language semantics, lack of global mutable...