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Re:How Discord handles over a million requests per minute wi... by di4na on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @03:19PM (#13170550)
Knowing that RabbitMQ is full erlang, why bring a really big dependency if you have all the things in your everyday language anyway ?
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Re:How Discord handles over a million requests per minute wi... by jondot on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @02:01AM (#13174349)
An all encompassing answer would be - the abstractions. Why would you use an operating system if really you have your CPU documented and know all of the instruction sets?
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Re:How Discord handles over a million requests per minute wi... by gregpardo on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @10:11AM (#13176471)
Yeah this... Hey guys you don't need erlang to solve this problem... just use this tool built in erlang.
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