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Re:Elixir: Practical Concurrency Cookbook by mattbaker on Sunday July 25, 2021 @04:42PM (#27952755)
I’m always curious to learn about things that make people cautious to run the BEAM in production. What makes it scary for you?
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Re:Elixir: Practical Concurrency Cookbook by sandwichinvest on Monday July 26, 2021 @01:37PM (#27962409)
Pure fear of the unknown, combined with fear of getting less-than-stellar tracebacks & profiling because Elixir's only one of the VM languages.
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Re:Elixir: Practical Concurrency Cookbook by mattbaker on Monday August 02, 2021 @10:48PM (#28045217)
Makes sense. For what it’s worth we’ve been really happy with traces, no issues there, and there are definitely profiling tools. Plus you can point Erlang’s Observer tool at a production BEAM node, it’s wildly useful!
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Re:Elixir: Practical Concurrency Cookbook by dnautics on Sunday July 25, 2021 @10:18PM (#27954852)
NHS and Boston MBTA both run BEAM in production, and arguably lives are at stake there (mostly indirectly but still) ...
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