I really like Fred (ferd) Hebert's take on erlang and concurrency and distribution problems (Earlier in the book he points out how concurrency and distribution

I really like Fred (ferd) Hebert's take on erlang and concurrency and distribution problems (Earlier in the book he points out how concurrency and distribution are a similar type of problem). https://learnyousomeerlang.com/distribunomicon https://learnyousomeerlang.com/distribunomicon > distributed programming is like being left alone in the dark, with monsters everywhere. It's scary, you don't know what to do or what's coming at you. Bad news: distributed Erlang is still leaving you alone in the dark to fight the scary monsters. It won't do any of that kind of hard work for you. Good news: instead of being alone with nothing but pocket change and a poor sense of aim to kill the monsters, Erlang gives you a flashlight, a machete, and a pretty kick-ass mustache to feel more confident > This is the standard 'tools, not solutions' approach seen before in OTP; you rarely get full-blown software and applications, but you get many components to build systems with. You'll have tools that tell you when parts of the system go up or down, tools to do a bunch of stuff over the network, but hardly any silver bullet that takes care of fixing things for you. As for the weird syntax, I use Elixir (https://elixir-lang.org/ https://elixir-lang.org/) on the daily and its pretty great. See here for a different write up I did https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24173635 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24173635