Another great Erlang essay by jlouis. The Erlang practice of letting things fail is also SOP for experienced implementors of any large SOA system. You just let

Another great Erlang essay by jlouis. The Erlang practice of letting things fail is also SOP for experienced implementors of any large SOA system. You just let things fail. If some process getting messages from a queue can't talk to the Database, don't retry; just exit and let the supervisor deal with it. Erlang is great for writing robust software because this type of error handling is a first-class feature of the language and runtime.