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title: "The Zen of Erlang"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-zen-of-erlang-nx8gc7uvd
source_url: https://ferd.ca/the-zen-of-erlang.html
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source: "Community Picks"
published: 2024-05-01T10:49:53.476Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:39:06.345Z
tags: ["erlang"]
reading_time: 26
upvotes: 5
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# 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.

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