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Re:Elixir Saves Pinterest $2M a Year in Server Costs by pessimizer on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @10:06AM (#37308164)
Whatsapp took over the world running on Erlang/BEAM, with barely any servers and a few engineers. I honestly don't know what could be a better success story than that, but Discord has also done pretty well. The BEAM + Rust combination is looking scarily effective right now.
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Re:Elixir Saves Pinterest $2M a Year in Server Costs by ch4s3 on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @10:44AM (#37308712)
I'd be willing to accept the argument that Whatsapp happened to have assembled an uncommonly good team, but it is a signal.

Yeah the BEAM with some Rust NIFs is a great combo. I'd definitely consider it in the future for many types of problems and anything involving a HTTP or GraphQL interface.

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