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“Systems that run forever self-heal and scale” by Joe Armstrong (Lambda Jam 2013) 
I am a fan of Joe Armstrong.  I wish he were still with us to share his wisdom with us (he passed away a few…

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Joe Armstrong's 2013 Lambda Jam talk explores how Erlang achieves years of uptime without failures through practical engineering solutions for distributed systems. Armstrong and his co-creators built Erlang to solve real-world phone switch problems, resulting in technology that powers over 50% of global phone equipment. The talk covers why distributed systems are valuable (training LLMs faster, maintaining uptime during upgrades like Google) and introduces the fundamental challenges and solutions for building self-healing, scalable systems.

A Review of Joe Armstrong’s “Systems that run forever self-heal and scale”