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Honest Take — Before You Begin
Honest reflections on where everything comes together
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Course · 5 lessons
~43 hr
Advanced
Distributed Systems & the BEAM Advantage
Distributed Systems & the BEAM Advantage covers: Erlang and OTP in Action, Programming Erlang. Harness the BEAM's distributed capabilities — node clustering, distributed OTP, CRDTs, Horde, and the architectural patterns that make the BEAM the best runtime for distributed systems. This is the capstone where everything comes together.
reading · we frame, you read MIT or the canonical
taught · we author, no canonical fits
↺ spirals back to earlier lessons
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L2
Erlang and OTP in Action: The Distributed Chapters
In Course 4 you read this book for its OTP patterns and left a bookmark at the point where the story changes: the authors take the caching system they have been building and make …
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Horde
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L3
Programming Erlang: Armstrong on Distribution
Joe Armstrong liked to reduce his life's work to one sentence: a reliable system must be distributed, because a system on one machine can be unplugged by one cable. Everything els…
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Horde
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L4
Module Checklist
Work through each item before the checkpoint.
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L5
Capstone: Distributed BEAM Cluster
The course capstone: a counter service that survives the death of the node running it. libcluster forms the cluster, Horde supervises and registers processes across it, PubSub cro…
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5 lessons. Read in order; spiral back when you need to. By the end you'll have used the core ideas twice — once on the abstract, once on something you'll meet at work next week.