El miércoles 4 de marzo, a las 14 horas en el salón de actos de nuestra facultad, el Profesor Francesco Cesarini dará una conferencia titulada Thinking in a Highly Concurrent, Mostly-functional Language sobre cómo implementar sistemas distribuidos escalables y tolerantes a fallas usando Erlang y Open Telecom Platform (OTP). Abajo adjunto la biografía del Profesor Cesarini, que, además, es coautor del Programming Erlang. Un abrazo. guido Thinking in a Highly Concurrent, Mostly-functional Language Yale Professor Alan Perlis once wrote, <93>A language that doesn<92>t affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.<94> To really appreciate the power of the actor model, no matter if you are using Go, Rust, AKKA or Erlang, you need to learn to think concurrently. Erlang has for decades been leading the way in concurrent thinking and developers from different communities abd backgrounds have a lot to learn from its approach. This talk illustrates by example how embracing the Erlang way of thinking about problems leads to scalable and fault-tolerant designs. Through these case studies, we will describe how Erlang, and more specifically, concurrency was done in 1995 when the limit of processes was 30,000, with an evolution as to how concurrency is used and applied today, when the limit of simultaneous processes in in the magnitude of millions per virtual machine. We will also describe techniques of clustering Erlang nodes within the server side domain, describing how these systems have evolved as the concurrency model and the underlying hardware got more powerful. Francesco Cesarini is the founder of Erlang Solutions Ltd.:http://www.erlang-solutions.com He started using Erlang on a daily bases during an internship at Ericsson<92>s computer science laboratory with the co-inventors of Erlang. He moved on to Ericsson<92>s Erlang training and consulting arm working on the first release of the OTP middleware, applying it to turnkey solutions and flagship telecom applications. In 1999, soon after Erlang was released as open source, he founded what has today become Erlang Solutions. He is also the co-author of Erlang Programming, a book recently published by O<92>Reilly and is in the process of completing Designing for Scalability With Erlang/OTP. And in what ever time he has over, you will find him lecturing at Oxford University. You can follow his ramblings on twitter:http://www.twitter.com/FrancescoC. -- ------------------------------------------ "Cuando un hombre estúpido hace algo que le avergüenza, siempre dice que cumple con su deber" Geoge B. Shaw (1856-1950)