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> this can easily happen in a BEAM system Wait... I thought all you had to do is write it in Erlang and it scales magically!
by davidw 1y ago
> this can easily happen in a BEAM system
Wait... I thought all you had to do is write it in Erlang and it scales magically!
- toast0 1y agoErlang makes a lot of hard things possible, some tricky things easy, and some easy things tricky. There's no magic fairy dust. Just a lot of things that fit together in nice ways if you use them well, and blow up in predictable ways if you have learned how to predict the system.
- davidw 1y agoI know that, having built several myself. Sometimes people get a bit ahead of themselves with the marketing though.