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Re:How to Sell Elixir Again (2023) by Jtsummers on Saturday May 13, 2023 @11:40AM (#35929435)
> The users whose data is lost during these incidents probably wouldn't feel quite so peaceful about it, either.

Who says data has been lost? Only if your protocol is fire-and-forget with no checking. But then you'd have data loss no matter the language(s) you implemented it in if your system became inundated with requests and crashed.

Re:How to Sell Elixir Again (2023) by evadne on Saturday May 13, 2023 @01:05PM (#35930333)
I think robustness is best managed in layers

Databases have WAL -> Systems have task queues

The executor itself can fail, if the job is not lost :)