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"In 1998 Ericsson announced the AXD301 switch, containing over a million lines of Erlang and reported to achieve a high availability of nine "9"s"

That was the first commercial use of the language. The first commercial use of a 'niche' language, with over a million lines of code, achieved a downtime of just over half a second over 20 years. That's total downtime, too, not just 'unplanned'. And even if you take into account the numbers touted by critics of that quote, of 5 nines...that's still considered world class. For the first damn commercial product.

That's delivering.



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