it would be interesting if they covered some of the technical problems they've had with using erlang in a database. writing a db in a VM language like erlang or

it would be interesting if they covered some of the technical problems they've had with using erlang in a database. writing a db in a VM language like erlang or java you inevitably end up fighting with the VM for some workloads. i noticed that recently one of their engineers tried to submit a patch to erlang to force it to not put schedulers to sleep when there is work to be done (http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-patches/2013-June/004109.html http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-patches/2013-June/004109....). it had an interesting flag name '+zdnfgtse' which looks like z-do-not-f-go-to-sleep-ever :)