How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users

Re:How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users by kevincennis on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @06:18PM (#14748575)

Off topic, but what's the story behind base-64 encoding your email? Is that just a spam prevention measure?

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Re:How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users by Deinumite on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @06:31PM (#14748644)

I think it is also sometimes a simple barrier to entry to weed out some candidates (think of it as a super simple fizzbuzz).

I also see a lot of job postings asking people to decode some string for bonus "points"... 90% of the time its just rot13.

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Re:How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users by Cieplak on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @06:20PM (#14748584)

Yes

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Re:How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users by Corrado on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @09:37AM (#14752388)

I actually really like this idea and am going to steal it. :)

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