This section deals with Erlang data types and pattern matching. Functions, and modules are discussed. It continues by introducing recursion, with a special emphasis on different recursive patterns, including tail recursion.
This section describes the creation of processes and their life span. It looks at sending and receiving messages, selective reception, and passing data in the messages. It continues with the various uses of time outs and registering processes, and terminates by showing the generic process code structure. We conclude this section by introducing the simple but powerful error handling mechanisms in processes. It looks at process links, exit signals and their propagation semantics.
Generic Servers and Supervisors This section introduces the OTPdesign
patterns commonly referred to as generic servers and supervisors. We
give an example of a client server application written in Erlang,
migrating it to a system using the gen_server behaviour libraries. We
wrap up this section by demonstrating how to place the server we've
just written in a supervision tree.
Attendees who will benefit from this tutorial includes those want to learn more about Erlang and its concurrency model. Attending will put you on the right track in building distributed, fault tolerant massively concurrent soft real-time systems.
In order to get the most out of this tutorial, you must have a good
grasp of other programming languages. Having dabbled with
http://tryerlang.org is not necessary, but will help.
We will have a lot of material to cover in a short time, so the more prepared you are, the better. To be able to attend the tutorial, you must have Erlang working alongside your favorite editor. You can download binary snapshots of the distro here.
If you prefer to compile from source, you can download it here.
It would be beneficial if you can get the Erlang mode running on your favorite editor. The most commonly used editors include emacs and vim, but you will find an Erlang support in most environments.
If you have time to dabble with Erlang, a great site with simple tutorials is tryerlang.
If you do not have one of the Erlang books, online resources where you can read more about Erlang include
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to email me.
is Technical Director of Erlang Solutions Ltd, a company specialised in high availability, massively concurrent soft real time systems. He has been programming Erlang since 1995 and was on the team who worked on the OTP R1 release. Francesco has worked with start-ups and blue chip companies alike helping them with all the aspects of Erlang based projects - from coding, reviews and architecture designs to setting up development centers. He has taught Erlang to hundreds of developers, testers, support staff and university students.He documented these experiences in Erlang Programming, a book published by O'Reilly Media in 2009. Francesco is also a frequent speaker at conferences worldwide and teaches graduates and undergraduates at the IT University of Gothenburg in Sweden and Oxford University in the UK.