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As someone who has managed large clusters of Erlang applications, I have to say I am 100% convinced that the language you pick, no matter how amazing its design
by peterwwillis 8y ago
As someone who has managed large clusters of Erlang applications, I have to say I am 100% convinced that the language you pick, no matter how amazing its design principles, has no bearing on how well the application runs. If you work for a telecom and you're actually trying to meet a nine-nines SLA, you can do it with Erlang. But if you're a start-up throwing together some random distributed app on a small budget, nine-nines probably isn't your goal, and so your application won't be nearly as stable.
- sb8244 8y agoTotally. Uptime & stability is a mentality and a feature, never a free ride! At the same time, having a solid foundation and a community that knows how to take it to rock solid stability is valuable.
- mmartinson 8y agoComing to Elixir/Erlang from Ruby, there is a whole new world of thing to break and horrible mistakes you can make. Fortunately, the language/VM also makes it a whole lot easier to fix the horrible new mistakes once you discover that you've made them.