EMx 041: What Really Makes Erlang and Elixir Fault Tolerant and Scalable with Francesco Cesarini

Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 creditTriplebyteCacheFly Panel Josh AdamsMark EricksenCharles Max Wood Guest: Francesco Cesarini Episode Summary In this episode of Elixir, Charles Wood, Josh Adams and Mark Ericksen chat with guest, Francesco Cesarini, Founder and Technical Director at Erlang Solutions about how to build reliable and scalable systems within the Elixir and Erlang world. Erlang Solutions provides consultancy to customers who are not familiar with Elixir and offers training when necessary. With their WOMBATOAM tool that can handle very large-scale systems like WhatsApp with its fault tolerant capability. Francesco talks about how he likes Elixir which is an up and coming language that focuses on UI/UX usability and compares Erlang and Elixir languages.  Francesco mentions he is impressed with the emphasis Elixir community places on user-friendliness. The guest discusses pros and cons of handling shared memory and concurrency. Supervisors and OTP help handle errors by creating escalation strategies. Going beyond the software, Francesco then shares some of his favorite real life experiences of power outages and switch failures he faced while building fault tolerant systems. Links https://www.erlang-solutions.com/https://www.erlang-solutions.com/products/wombatoam.htmlhttps://github.com/erlang/otphttps://github.com/francescochttps://twitter.com/FrancescoC   Picks Josh Adams: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberneticsThe Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming by Jessica Kerr Mark Ericksen: Mark’s Blog: https://brainlid.org/elixir/2018/01/17/people-are-processes.html Charles Max Wood: https://www.vrbo.com/Canon EOS M6 Francesco Cesarini: Property Based Testing by Fred Herberthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19105908Special Guest: Francesco Cesarini. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: