Re:Elixir Saves Pinterest $2M a Year in Server Costs
by troupo on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @07:06AM
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It doesn't effectively do that. It does about 10% of that, ineffectively.
Instead of running a single VM with full knowledge of how to run lightweight processes, designed to fully take advantage of modern multi-core CPUs with multiple guarantees enforced by the runtime you have multiple single-threaded VMs awkwardly communicating with each other over a bolted-on API
Instead of running a single VM with full knowledge of how to run lightweight processes, designed to fully take advantage of modern multi-core CPUs with multiple guarantees enforced by the runtime you have multiple single-threaded VMs awkwardly communicating with each other over a bolted-on API