Erlang virtual machine - wikipedia

see also

• Don’t “let it crash”, let it heal
  • Failures are inevitabe, so systems must be designed to EXPECT and recover from them, NOT AVOID them completely.
  • Let it crash philosophy allows components to FAIL and RECOVER quickly using supervision trees.
  • Processes should be ISOLATED and communicate via MESSAGE PASSING, which prevents cascading failures.
  • Supervision trees monitor other processes and RESTART them when they fail, creating a self-healing architecture.
• Why I wrote the BEAM book