The Isolation Trap: Erlang (causality.blog)

by enz • 74 comments • 166 points
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[−] johnisgood 63d ago

> This isn’t obviously wrong

I thought it was obviously wrong. Server A calls Server B, and Server B calls server A. Because when I read the code my first thought was that it is circular. Is it really not obvious? Am I losing my mind?

The mention of persistent_term is cool.

[−] loloquwowndueo 63d ago
It wasn’t obvious to the AI that wrote the article. There’s still hope for humans :)
[−] jacquesm 63d ago
Servers are not ever supposed to be calling each other, also not in longer chains. They're supposed to layered and you only call "down".
[−] bluGill 63d ago
It is too common / useful. Not everything is a tree.