Stuff Goes Bad: Erlang in Anger

Erlang has the steepest learning curve of any programming language I've ever studied and Frank Hebert does an excellent job of grading that curve to the point where mere mortals can walk upwards. I'm tremendously grateful for all the work he's put into his books if you're going to spend time on Erlang start with 'Learn you some Erlang' and work your way into the libraries from there.

This is the Missing Advanced Manual. Another great work by Fred Hebert, the author of <a href="http://learnyousomeerlang.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnyousomeerlang.com</a> .<p>I like the exercises at end of chapters. Most of it is Erlang specific. But some chapters like &quot;Planning For Overload&quot; are interesting in general if you are running distributed system at scale.

This should be required reading for anyone building systems in which subcomponents can fail independently, Erlang or otherwise! The techniques are not always implementable in other languages, but the concepts behind them can and should be translated.

Looks like a really nice book, but I don&#x27;t know a thing about Erlang.