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A Hundred Eyes

"Let it crash" is the BEAM's answer to failure: processes crash, supervisors restart them, and the system recovers. That confidence is earned, but some bugs hide behind it. They live in the gaps between processes, where getting things right is subtle and getting things wrong looks exactly like getting things right. You'd have to never blink to see them. Argus Panoptes was a hundred-eyed giant who never blinked. I named a tool after him and pointed it at libraries you use in production.

Quinn Wilton

Quinn has been writing Elixir since just about the language's beginning, and speaking about it for nearly as long. From Datalog to CRDTs and niche type systems, she's spent most of her time exploring the weird and sometimes forgotten ideas from computer science that offer glimpses of a future where code is written using the tools that have always seemed just barely out of our reach.