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Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir)

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Re: Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir)

#13

Funny how these things are fairly simple on BEAM. Funny how majority of industry won’t ever learn anything about BEAM and will keep hitting walls for the rest of their careers.

Without evaluating the merits of your statement, I find it funny you start out implying others are close-minded, but end up rather close-minded yourself.

Re: Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir)

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Ha, nice. Any interesting notes on scaling and load testing? At what point does it fall over? We all found it out empirically with One Million Checkboxes, so I'm curious how this compares.

I'll let you know once we had actually hit some performance ceiling. Right now, there like 50 users. I don't even see that in my metrics. But I'll keep you posted.

Some numbers. When cursors.io (now dead, search images) had a huge influx from China for some time, it went into thousands daily. According to wiki, r/place attracted 90k, mostly bots, I guess. There isn’t much to retain a “player” in subj tbh, so…
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