reliability – Row Coding

Are Erlang/OTP messages reliable? Can messages be duplicated?

July 31, 2023 by Tarik

I’ll separate this into points I hope will make sense. I might be re-hashing a bit of what I have written in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Concurrency. You might want to read that one to get details on the rationale behind the way message passing is done in Erlang. 1. Message transmission Message passing in … Read more

Erlang’s 99.9999999% (nine nines) reliability

November 15, 2022 by Tarik

The reliability figure wasn’t supposed to measure the total time any part of AXD301 (project in question) was ever shut down for over 20 years. It represents the total time over those 20 years that the service provided by the AXD301 system was ever offline. Subtle difference. As Joe Armstrong says here: The AXD301 has … Read more