Elixir saves Pinterest $2M a year in server costs
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#2money quote :
''' The combined effect of better architecture and Elixir saved Pinterest over $2 million per year in server costs. '''
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#3By 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 servers, but we felt that four provided more fault tolerance). The combined effect of better architecture and Elixir saved Pinterest over $2 million per year in server costs. In addition, the performance and reliability of the systems went up despite running on drastically less hardware. 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. Despite running on less hardware, the response times dropped significantly, as did errors."
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#5By 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…
I think it's a generally practiced strategy at this point to spew out blog dev posts on company blogs to build SEO or act as an ad, regardless of quality.
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#6Compared to Python. No wonder.
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#7Pinterest - ah that app that has hijacked all images in google search result. Created an account once but has not really used it.
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#8If you are starting from AWS, it is likely there are many ways to save tons of money by just moving away from AWS.
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#9They could have just used different Java/Python libraries and changed the architecture for the same result. The choice of a Programming Language alone has minimal impact on performance at that scale.
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#10Pinterest - ah that app that has hijacked all images in google search result. Created an account once but has not really used it.
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