Erlang and First-Person Shooters (2011) [pdf]

I saw this deck mid-2014, and it single-handedly made me want to learn Erlang. I felt that any system that can handle COD's load is, at the very least, worth checking out. About a year later, I got a job doing Erlang full-time, and OTP is about as good as that slideshow indicated...So, if anyone at Demonware is reading this...Thank you! You introduced me to my second great love (after my wife)!

I'm surprised Erlang isn't used more often. Out of the box it seems to solve a lot of the hard scaling problems many business face now. Maybe it's just too exotic. I wonder if they could have been as successful with Scala + Akka. They mention a desire for at least limited static typing at the end of the slides. In my experience well-defined, statically typed interface declarations can eliminate a lot of dumb bugs.