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Re:How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users by agentgt on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @08:48AM (#14752020)
> while my Java apps take 2 minutes to start up

This is the classic case (and I'm/we are guilty of it as well) of Java apps that are probably traditional monolithic apps that use frameworks with extensive reflection and class loading (ie spring component scanning).

You can get ridiculously fast loading time with Java if you use Dart2, a reasonable web framework and no ORMs. I'm talking 500ms... sort of depends on your JVM settings. Sure not 10ms but still way faster than 2 minutes.

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Re:How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users by zild3d on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @09:47AM (#14752464)
500ms is not "ridiculously fast".
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Re:How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users by awj on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @12:12PM (#14753732)
For service startup time? Sure it is.

How often are you booting your webservers that 500ms isn't fast enough?

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Re:How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users by joshbaptiste on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @12:14PM (#14753758)
in the JVM starting world it is..
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