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A live chat app is its sweet spot. It runs on the same Erlang VM that Whatsapp used to scale to hundreds of millions of users on under 30 machines and very few
by AlchemistCamp 7y ago
A live chat app is its sweet spot.
It runs on the same Erlang VM that Whatsapp used to scale to hundreds of millions of users on under 30 machines and very few employees.
- jakearmitage 7y agoExcuse my lack of knowledge, but I was always under the impression that websockets are not that scalable since you are opening 1:1 connections.
- theagilecoder 7y agoThst not true in the Elixir ecosystem. The numbers I see on my 5$ droplet are sth I haven't seen before. And that after writing 5% of code that i usually had to write in other stacks.