Joe Armstrong: System

Joe Armstrong was British computer scientist. Explore interesting quotes on system.

Joe Armstrong: 72 quotes1 like

“The middle man brings conceptual integrity to the system.”

The How and Why of Fitting Things Together

“The inability to isolate software components from each other is the main reason why many popular programming languages cannot be used for making robust system software.”

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Making Reliable Distributed Systems in the Presence of Software Errors

“We need to know why things fails. If we want to improve our system, we need to put that information into that system into logs or something.”

Faults, Scaling and Erlang concurrency

“Do we really need to hijack our attention systems every 10 seconds with a banner?”

The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science

“I think we seem to have forgotten that things can be small. This way of decomposing systems into small things that I can reason about.”

The forgotten advantage of concurrent programming