--- title: The Zen of Erlang | daily.dev description: Erlang's 'Zen' is about embracing failures, crashes, and exceptions in a controlled manner, using them as building blocks to assemble large reliable systems.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-zen-of-erlang-nx8gc7uvd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Zen of Erlang | daily.dev og:description: Erlang's 'Zen' is about embracing failures, crashes, and exceptions in a controlled manner, using them as building blocks to assemble large reliable systems.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-zen-of-erlang-nx8gc7uvd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/nx8gc7UVd.png og:image:alt: The Zen of Erlang og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Zen of Erlang **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 26 min read · 5 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Erlang's 'Zen' is about embracing failures, crashes, and exceptions in a controlled manner, using them as building blocks to assemble large reliable systems. Process isolation, lightweight processes, and message passing are key concepts in Erlang. Supervisors are used to start, monitor, and restart processes, ensuring fault tolerance. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#erlang](https://daily.dev/tags/erlang) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-zen-of-erlang-nx8gc7uvd) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"The Zen of Erlang","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-zen-of-erlang-nx8gc7uvd","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-zen-of-erlang-nx8gc7uvd"},"datePublished":"2024-05-01T10:49:53.476Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T08:39:06.345Z","description":"Erlang's 'Zen' is about embracing failures, crashes, and exceptions in a controlled manner, using them as building blocks to assemble large reliable systems....","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/6acc541e9d5d2ae9ad8ae331153df41d?_a=AQAEuiZ","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/6acc541e9d5d2ae9ad8ae331153df41d?_a=AQAEuiZ","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Community Picks","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Community Picks","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1655817725/logos/community","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/community"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-zen-of-erlang-nx8gc7uvd","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":5},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"erlang","timeRequired":"PT26M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Community Picks","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/community"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"The Zen of Erlang"}]} ```