I know that most of us don't want to read someone's thesis because typically a thesis is boring, but I want to strongly encourage you to read Joe Armstrong's th

I know that most of us don't want to read someone's thesis because typically a thesis is boring, but I want to strongly encourage you to read Joe Armstrong's thesis, about the origins of Erlang. I did not plan to read it, I just glanced at it, and I got pulled in, and I ended up reading the whole thing because it was so interesting: Making reliable distributed system in the presence of software errors http://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf http://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf If the subject of "resiliency with queues" is interesting to you, then what Joe Armstrong wrote will definitely be interesting to you.