Re:Elixir vs. Erlang: a question of momentum
by rdtsc on Thursday April 23, 2015 @01:22PM
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Actually OTP makes even more sense though. WhatsApp processes billions of messages per day and they only have 10 or so engineers working on the backend.
At any large scale what becomes more important is fault tolerance. Even though Go has goroutines and sane and modern concurrent IO handling, goroutines still share memory. So then even a super fast 1M req/s system is no good if it is down 50% of the time because it crashed.
At any large scale what becomes more important is fault tolerance. Even though Go has goroutines and sane and modern concurrent IO handling, goroutines still share memory. So then even a super fast 1M req/s system is no good if it is down 50% of the time because it crashed.