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Is there anything like this that specifically addresses reliability in a critical (but not "safety-critical") system?

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Yes, Armstrong's thesis is a very good starting point:

http://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf

Looks great, thanks!

The techniques in the conclusions and appendix starting about page 200 are useful in any language

Yes. This goes far beyond Erlang.

An interesting paper that effectively describes the hardware equivalent to Erlang is Jim Gray's "Why Do Computers Stop and What Can Be Done About It?"

http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/tandem/TR-85.7.pdf

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