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Doing this for 7 years, have yet to seen a problem throwing more servers/caching/database locks can't handle. I'm not saying those problems don't exist, I'm jus

Doing this for 7 years, have yet to seen a problem throwing more servers/caching/database locks can't handle. I'm not saying those problems don't exist, I'm just saying it's not that common. Agree about the tone, was having a rough morning (plus: why does every Rails thread turn into a "you should really try Elixir!" , yeah we don't like our stack to be constantly shat on by Elixir guys)

ranyefet 7y ago
Of course you can throw more servers/caching/database locks, but the advantage of using Elixir & Phoenix is that you can do a lot more with less. Think how much the code would be simpler and easier to reason about without caching. Or reducing the numbers of servers you need from 150 to 2 and with better performance [1] [1] https://www.techworld.com/apps-wearables/how-elixir-helped-bleacher-report-handle-8x-more-traffic-3653957/ https://www.techworld.com/apps-wearables/how-elixir-helped-b...
tarsinge 7y ago
> yeah we don't like our stack to be constantly shat on by Elixir guys) Sorry to be blunt but this is nonsense, languages and stacks are just tools. When I was working on banking systems the idea of using dynamic typed language would have been insane. Now that I’m in a two man’s shop working on low traffic web app I’m happily using Rails for the CRUD work. And if tomorrow I were to work on a public high traffic real-time app like Discord I would do it in Elixir. There is no such thing as your stack.
- joelbluminator 7y ago
  Usually there's the 1-2 tools you're most comfortable with, unless you're a true generalist. Most people can't be incredible in Rails/Django/Spring/Node/.NET at the same time, you have to pick 1-2 things you excel at. You can be efficient in 5 tools at the same time, but not an expert (for most people. some people are great at everything they put their hands on).

ranyefet 7y ago

Of course you can throw more servers/caching/database locks, but the advantage of using Elixir & Phoenix is that you can do a lot more with less. Think how much the code would be simpler and easier to reason about without caching. Or reducing the numbers of servers you need from 150 to 2 and with better performance [1] [1] https://www.techworld.com/apps-wearables/how-elixir-helped-bleacher-report-handle-8x-more-traffic-3653957/ https://www.techworld.com/apps-wearables/how-elixir-helped-b...

tarsinge 7y ago

> yeah we don't like our stack to be constantly shat on by Elixir guys) Sorry to be blunt but this is nonsense, languages and stacks are just tools. When I was working on banking systems the idea of using dynamic typed language would have been insane. Now that I’m in a two man’s shop working on low traffic web app I’m happily using Rails for the CRUD work. And if tomorrow I were to work on a public high traffic real-time app like Discord I would do it in Elixir. There is no such thing as your stack.

joelbluminator 7y ago
Usually there's the 1-2 tools you're most comfortable with, unless you're a true generalist. Most people can't be incredible in Rails/Django/Spring/Node/.NET at the same time, you have to pick 1-2 things you excel at. You can be efficient in 5 tools at the same time, but not an expert (for most people. some people are great at everything they put their hands on).