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diff --git a/presentations/erlang-2016/presentation.md b/presentations/erlang-2016/presentation.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..526564b88268 --- /dev/null +++ b/presentations/erlang-2016/presentation.md @@ -0,0 +1,222 @@ +slidenumbers: true +Erlang. +====== + +### Fault-tolerant, concurrent programming. + +--- + +## A brief history of Erlang + +--- + +![](https://www.ericsson.com/thinkingahead/the-networked-society-blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/bfW5FSr.jpg) + + +^ Telefontornet in Stockholm, around 1890. Used until 1913. + +--- + +![](https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UF7W9yTUO2g/VBqw-1HNTzI/AAAAAAAAPeg/KvsMbNSAcII/s1600/6835942484_1531372d8f_b.jpg) + +^ Telephones were operated manually at Switchboards. Anyone old enough to remember? I'm certainly not. + +--- + +![fit](https://russcam.github.io/fsharp-akka-talk/images/ericsson-301-AXD.png) + +^ Eventually we did that in software, and we got better at it over time. Ericsson AXD 301, first commercial Erlang switch. But lets take a step back. + +--- + +## Phone switches must be ... + +Highly concurrent + +Fault-tolerant + +Distributed + +(Fast!) + +![right 150%](http://learnyousomeerlang.com/static/img/erlang-the-movie.png) + +--- + +## ... and so is Erlang! + +--- + +## Erlang as a whole: + +- Unique process model (actors!) +- Built-in fault-tolerance & error handling +- Distributed processes +- Three parts! + +--- + +## Part 1: Erlang, the language + +- Functional +- Prolog-inspired syntax +- Everything is immutable +- *Extreme* pattern-matching + +--- +### Hello Joe + +```erlang +hello_joe. +``` + +--- +### Hello Joe + +```erlang +-module(hello1). +-export([hello_joe/0]). + +hello_joe() -> + hello_joe. +``` + +--- +### Hello Joe + +```erlang +-module(hello1). +-export([hello_joe/0]). + +hello_joe() -> + hello_joe. + +% 1> c(hello1). +% {ok,hello1} +% 2> hello1:hello_joe(). +% hello_joe +``` + +--- +### Hello Joe + +```erlang +-module(hello2). +-export([hello/1]). + +hello(Name) -> + io:format("Hello ~s!~n", [Name]). + +% 3> c(hello2). +% {ok,hello2} +% 4> hello2:hello("Joe"). +% Hello Joe! +% ok +``` + +--- + +## [fit] Hello ~~world~~ Joe is boring! +## [fit] Lets do it with processes. + +--- +### Hello Server + +```erlang +-module(hello_server). +-export([start_server/0]). + +start_server() -> + spawn(fun() -> server() end). + +server() -> + receive + {greet, Name} -> + io:format("Hello ~s!~n", [Name]), + server() + end. +``` + +--- + +## [fit] Some issues with that ... + +- What about unused messages? +- What if the server crashes? + +--- + +## [fit] Part 2: Open Telecom Platform + +### **It's called Erlang/OTP for a reason.** + +--- + +# OTP: An Application Framework + +- Supervision - keep processes alive! + +- OTP Behaviours - common process patterns + +- Extensive standard library + +- Error handling, debuggers, testing, ... + +- Lots more! + +^ Standard library includes lots of things from simple network libraries over testing frameworks to cryptography, complete LDAP clients etc. + +--- + +# Supervision + +![inline](http://erlang.org/doc/design_principles/sup6.gif) + +^ Supervision keeps processes alive, different restart behaviours, everything should be supervised to avoid "process" (and therefore memory) leaks + +--- + +# OTP Behaviours + +* `gen_server` +* `gen_statem` +* `gen_event` +* `supervisor` + +^ gen = generic. explain server, explain statem, event = event handling with registered handlers, supervisor ... + +--- + +`gen_server` + +--- + +## [fit] Part 3: BEAM + +### Bogdan/Bjørn Erlang Abstract machine + +--- + +## A VM for Erlang + +* Many were written, BEAM survived +* Concurrent garbage-collection +* Lower-level bytecode than JVM +* Very open to new languages + (Elixir, LFE, Joxa, ...) + +--- + +## What next? + +* Ole's talk, obviously! +* Learn You Some Erlang! + www.learnyousomeerlang.com +* Watch *Erlang the Movie* +* (soon!) Join the Oslo BEAM meetup group + +--- + +# [fit] Questions? + +`@tazjin` |