[erlang-questions] comparison with opensaf

[Sashan Govender]

I couldn't agree more. The amount of documentation doesn't correlate
with quality, and yes I think OpenSAF is over engineered, to say the
least.

On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Eric des Courtis
<Eric.desCourtis@REDACTED> wrote:
> Personally I think it's complicated for nothing.   The amount of
> documentation has nothing to do with how well it is documented. If you have
> to read 500 pages to understand what a supervisor does that seems like
> massive over engineering.
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 8:46 PM Sashan Govender <sashang@REDACTED> wrote:
>>
>> Not sure which documentation set you saw but the one over here looks
>> quite detailed. The AMF documentation alone is 500 pages.
>>
>> http://devel.opensaf.org/SAI-AIS-AMF-B.04.01.AL.pdf
>>
>> AMF as far as I can tell is like the OTP supervisor process.
>>
>> In terms of industry applications I know it's used in Ericsson's DSC
>> (Diameter Signalling Controller).
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 12:58 AM, Eric des Courtis
>> <Eric.desCourtis@REDACTED> wrote:
>> > This is a very hard question to answer because I would say OpenSAF is
>> > rather
>> > obscure. But I can tell you that while there are some overlaps between
>> > the
>> > two technologies particularly when it comes design patterns. The fact
>> > that
>> > Erlang is done entirely from the ground up (language, runtime, otp
>> > patterns
>> > etc...) specifically for high availability means that you should in
>> > theory
>> > experience much less friction when designing this sort of system in
>> > Erlang.
>> >
>> > My feeling from looking at the documentation is that this isn't well
>> > documented. In short I wouldn't consider is competition to Erlang in
>> > it's
>> > current state for any project.
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Sashan Govender <sashang@REDACTED>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi
>> >>
>> >> I'm interested if anyone has done a comparison the Erlang OTP and
>> >> OpenSAF.
>> >> It seems to me there is a significant amount of overlap in the but I
>> >> don't
>> >> have the expertise in both systems to form a comprehensive picture. As
>> >> far
>> >> as I can tell mnesia is like OpenSAF IMM. They can both be used as
>> >> configuration databases for a cluster. They both are strongly
>> >> consistent. I
>> >> know IMM certainly favours consistency over availabilty. OTP is
>> >> obviously in
>> >> Erlang while OpenSAF is in C/C++. Any comparisons out there about these
>> >> two
>> >> systems? Or am I wildly off the mark thinking that they are similar?
>> >>
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