Re:I made a Phoenix webapp as a veteran Rails dev
by easychris on Sunday May 21, 2017 @01:58PM
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That's true for threads (although most of your threads should be blocked by IO, e. g. DB queries, and that means the GIL lock isn't a big issue).
But the beauty of HTTP is that you can scale simply by adding more "endpoints". That means you can add as many processes (workers) as necessary to utilize all CPUs, or even add as many servers as you can afford.
I'm not saying that Elixir does not do a better job with it's lean processes and built-in OTP stuff.
But it's not true that you can't utilize all CPUs with a Rails app.
But the beauty of HTTP is that you can scale simply by adding more "endpoints". That means you can add as many processes (workers) as necessary to utilize all CPUs, or even add as many servers as you can afford.
I'm not saying that Elixir does not do a better job with it's lean processes and built-in OTP stuff.
But it's not true that you can't utilize all CPUs with a Rails app.