Elixir Saves Pinterest $2M a Year in Server Costs

Re:Elixir Saves Pinterest $2M a Year in Server Costs by Coryodaniel on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @07:22AM (#37306074)

I wrote the lambda piece, you could say re-arch saved us the money (although we could only re-arch cheaply because we already had other massive scale serverful systems in place), but I don’t believe I could have made it as efficient and dependency free in any other language.

i had been developing in ruby for over a decade and about 5 years of Node exp at the time.

im not a language enthusiast and mostly write in go today.

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Re:Elixir Saves Pinterest $2M a Year in Server Costs by Ensorceled on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @07:53AM (#37306357)

Go is my current favourite as well. Heck, just replacing python with Go would have done similar numbers. The key is “replacing python” and “rearch”, Elixir was just the mechanism.

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