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Web applications and APIs for mobile apps are embarrassingly parallel, but many modern web languages and frameworks went back to the stone age on parallelism.

• lifeisstillgood 2y ago
  It’s worth thinking about how to architect some of this in the new hardware. To go extreme, wafer scale silicon - 900,000 8 bit cores, 120GB sRam. Hand wave on the 8bit for now and just think how to handle facebook or e-commerce. A static site is simple if it fits inside 120GB, but facebook is low write high read (Inassume) - but fetching from / writing to memory - making that parallel means rewriting a lot of things .. and e-commerce - suddenly ACID does not parallelise easily. I mean this all seems doable with fairly fundamental changes to architecture memory concepts and … rdbms is challenging. But I think we are way past the idea that a web framework author can just fix it - this is deeper - a new OS a new compiler and so on - but I could be wrong.
• te_chris 2y ago
  There’s always Elixir!