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Pointed to as the canonical pitch for Erlang's fault-tolerance and self-healing model.
Joe Armstrong's Strange Loop 2013 talk on building large scalable systems from small isolated parallel components. It covers detecting and correcting errors at run time, changing code while it runs, and how Erlang embodies these principles.
It wasn't a video pitching the language and certainly not drawing any explicit parallels to modern practices. Just something that got me thinking about the distributed concurrency system of erlang for the first time in a decade. Here is a conference talk that is a pitch, if that's what you're looking for: [this video]
Conference talk pitching Erlang's distributed concurrency model
Here's you some examples to learn from. Most are old enough that patents have expired: Why Do Computers Stop and What Can Be Done About It? (1985) [link] Their NonStop Architecture [link] QNX's systems are ultra-reliable, too [link] OpenVMS clusters' uptime was years to decades & mixed CPU ISA's [link] Systems that run forever and self-heal (Armstrong) [this video] Microreboots [link] Minix 3: Microkernel-based, self-healing, POSIX OS [link]
Armstrong talk on self-healing systems in a list of examples
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