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    <title>Distributed Erlang</title>
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  <section>
    <title>What is distributed Erlang?</title>
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  <section>
    <title>Example</title>
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  <section>
    <title>When to use distributed Erlang</title>
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  <section>
    <title>Where to read more</title>
    <p><em>Erlang book:</em></p>
    <list type="bulleted">
      <item>Chapter 6 Distributed Programming - Describes how to write distributed Erlang applications which run on a network of Erlang nodes.</item>
      <item>Chapter 11 Distributed Programming Techniques.</item>
      <item>Chapter 12 Distributed Data.</item>
    </list>
    <p><em>Man pages:</em></p>
    <list type="bulleted">
      <item>auth - The Erlang authentication server. Note: The actual authentication has been moved from this process to the handshaking procedure. The man page gives a good description of the principles behind the cookie authentication mechanism however.</item>
      <item>erlang - Description of the BIFs.</item>
      <item>global - A global name registration facility.</item>
      <item>global_group - Grouping nodes to global name registration groups.</item>
      <item>net_adm - Various net administration routines.</item>
      <item>net_kernel - Networking kernel.</item>
      <item>pg - Distributed named process groups, experimental implementation.</item>
      <item>pg2 - Distributed named process groups.</item>
      <item>pool - Load distribution facility.</item>
      <item>slave - Functions for starting and controlling slave nodes.</item>
    </list>
    <p><em>Other:</em></p>
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