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Perhaps erlang/OTP might tackle some of these challenges of simpler scaling. https://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/des_princ https://www.erlang.org/doc/
by hu3 3y ago
Perhaps erlang/OTP might tackle some of these challenges of simpler scaling.
https://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/des_princ https://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/des_princ
WhatsApp famously scaled a lot with relatively few devs:
> WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28985169 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28985169
- GiorgioG 3y agoMost companies do not have WhatsApp scaling problems to solve. Having said that, I’d love to work on an Elixir project.
- hu3 3y agoMost companies don't but I was replying to omneity's inquiry. And yeah, Elixir is great!
- omneity 3y agoErlang is awesome! I never had a chance to use it in anger but I've been keeping a close eye on Erlang/Elixir for years. In fact we almost considered moving to it at my project for the sake of stability, but went with adopting some of the principles in our codebase instead (embrace failure basically, expect stuff to crash and recover properly).