Some of these ideas are written up in the late Joe Armstrong's dissertation about Erlang and OTP "Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of softwar

Some of these ideas are written up in the late Joe Armstrong's dissertation about Erlang and OTP "Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors". It's a few hundred pages but quite readable to a programming audience -- it isn't filled with acres of formal proofs or highly specialised jargon. https://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf https://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf > supervision tree See chapter 5 "Programming Fault Tolerant Systems" & section 5.2 "supervision hierarchies" > genserver / generic server See chapter 4 "Programming Techniques" section 4.1 "Abstracting out concurrency" and chapter 6 "Building an Application" section 6.2 "Generic server principles"