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I argue every project has to go through three phases - no idea what's wrong - No idea what's right - We know what was right, but the world has changed now.
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Is this a cpu-heavy workload? If it's mostly io-heavy, I could see a gevent + pypy approach getting 50x better.
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What are you talking about?
Anecdotally, I am beginning to hear more and more about organisations moving away from high level cloud infrastructure (such as lambda and cloud gateway) and going back to plain old virtual servers (like EC2), or even on-prem. Often the cost of supposedly "cheap" cloud environments is WAY more than you might expect and all booked as operational rather than capital expenditure (the latter being often preferable to sha…
That doesn't mean that the move into Azure wasn't the right one at the time, or that it was more expensive than not going into Azure. It's simply that the market evolves.
Compared to Python. No wonder.
By the title alone, this means nothing. How much would it cost otherwise? What is the percentage savings? In TFA, it gets better though: "Steve: That’s pretty easy. When I started on the spam team, we had close to 1,400 servers running. When we converted several parts to Elixir, we reduced that by around 95%. One of the systems that ran on 200 Python servers now runs on four Elixir servers (it can actually run on two…
> When our notifications system was running on Java, it was on 30 c32.xl instances. When we switched over to Elixir, we could run on 15. Would be curious to know how they tried to optimise the Java stack. Because on every benchmark I've seen the JVM is faster in every which way than Elixir. Except for memory where often people will over-provision the JVM rather than look at where their code might be over-allocating o…
They say "The combined effect of better architecture and Elixir".
So the post is mostly useless.
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To be honest the world at large doesn't have an anorexia problem but an obesity epidemy. 50 millions children under the age of 5 are already obese (and I think 93% of obese children shall stay obese their entire life ). So... Anorexia may be a hill to die on and it's not fun for parents of anorexic kids but priorities, priorities and priorities. The real eating disorder worldwide leads to obesity, not anorexia and I…
Though I think the original comment was in reference to teen-aged girls and not the world at large.
But the broader point beyond my specific snipe -- which is personal and driven by deep anger over a serious problem affecting me personally -- the broader issue is not only that Pinterest is on the whole an anti-social actor because of its garbage moderation and promotion of harmful content in its algorithms, it is more broadly a bad actor in the web ecosystem generally.
They hijack search results by scraping and stealing content, hiding the original link, and try to trap you in their circle of links.
In this day and age of people getting sued and slapped down for legitimate webscraping, it boggles my mind that Pinterest gets away with what they do.
On the whole a swamp of an unethical company. F*ck pinterest.
(But love that the commenter couldn't help but turn the thread into an underhanded comment against "fat people". Oh so typical.)
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> When our notifications system was running on Java, it was on 30 c32.xl instances. When we switched over to Elixir, we could run on 15. Would be curious to know how they tried to optimise the Java stack. Because on every benchmark I've seen the JVM is faster in every which way than Elixir. Except for memory where often people will over-provision the JVM rather than look at where their code might be over-allocating o…
The advantages of Elixir are not performance-related. There is a lot of focus on raw performance on web-related services, when in reality most of their running time is spent waiting for IO. If there are two things the BEAM excels at, is IO and turning almost any problem into half a dozen processes that are scheduled and run in parallel, if not geographically-distributed, with 1/50th the effort of any other language.…
For context, $2MM ~= 0.3% of FY22 cost of revenue[1]. [1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1506293/000150629323...
I also wonder what the carbon emission reduction would be from this change.