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> The combined effect of better architecture and Elixir saved Pinterest over $2 million per year in server costs So it may not even be Elixir that is saving mo
by quickthrower2 3y ago
> The combined effect of better architecture and Elixir saved Pinterest over $2 million per year in server costs
So it may not even be Elixir that is saving most of that money. Who knows.
- Ensorceled 3y agoMy bet is that the bulk of the savings came from the re-architecture and, at best, Elixir sped up the path to get there.
- Coryodaniel 3y agoI wrote the lambda piece, you could say re-arch saved us the money (although we could only re-arch cheaply because we already had other massive scale serverful systems in place), but I don’t believe I could have made it as efficient and dependency free in any other language. i had been developing in ruby for over a decade and about 5 years of Node exp at the time. im not a language enthusiast and mostly write in go today.
- Ensorceled 3y agoGo is my current favourite as well. Heck, just replacing python with Go would have done similar numbers. The key is “replacing python” and “rearch”, Elixir was just the mechanism.