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Welcome to Erlang/OTP "releases" where the folklore is that Ericsson engineers spent as much time testing releases (read: state migration code) as they did appl

• bjz_ 9y ago
  Interesting. Yeah, from what I understand the Erlang philosophy was to just throw out the idea of a type system and deal with faults dynamically, which is understandable given the time the language was created. But given what we've learned about type systems in the intervening years, it would be super nice to leverage a type system for this, and greatly reduce the testing overhead. I'd love to see this in an event sourcing context too. This paper, “The Dark Side of Event Sourcing: Managing Data Conversion”, seems to hint at there being some interesting algebraic foundations to splitting and merging streams, adding new fields, etc: http://files.movereem.nl/2017saner-eventsourcing.pdf http://files.movereem.nl/2017saner-eventsourcing.pdf