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Re:My thoughts after using Clojure for about a month by zbentley on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @02:17PM (#48387648)
> I did witness it brutally murder a MySQL cluster because it couldn't serve it fast enough. That was both fun and terrifying to watch on the dashboards.

Haha yep. In my experience, everyone running CGI/process-per-request application servers is bullish on switching to a concurrent or cooperative runtime...until they realize they just removed the primary ratelimiter on downstream DB/service accesses.

The converse war stories are also amusing: people rewrite their whole app in a concurrent/asynchronous framework and nothing changes, because the DB driver is still farming out all queries to a tiny fixed-size threadpool of connections that was the bottleneck all along.

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Re:My thoughts after using Clojure for about a month by pdimitar on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @02:20PM (#48387693)
Oh yeah, definitely. If your DB server (or any storage backend) cannot have like 200+ connections alive at all times then it's absolutely pointless rewriting your app in Elixir or Golang. You'll just serve DB timeouts in your responses.
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