Live data from Hacker News

Elli: Performance oriented web server written in Erlang

wooga.com

21–22 of 22 posts

Re: Elli: Performance oriented web server written in Erlang

#21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's attitudes like this that make HN comments so dismal. Ugh. This is an interesting tool, developed by a group of people doing interesting things, and it's been shared with the world for others to use and/or improve on. While I'm personally not an Erlang developer, I'm grateful for others who create interesting solutions to their scaling problems. Plus, we utilize Erlang extensively at Whoosh Traffic -- anything th…

I'm sorry, but when the title says 'Performance oriented' anything I expect to see more than 'Hello world' as the benchmark.

1) If you aren't going to be sincere, don't apologize.

2) If your expectations aren't being met, ask for what is missing. Don't come out as an antagonist belittling the author.

Thatnk you for your consideration.

Re: Elli: Performance oriented web server written in Erlang

#22

You may have a problem in your math. A mean of 4.3us with a stdev of 10.9us should mean that your 99% should be over 26us, unless it's super smooth with a few huge outliers. Also, are you sure you didn't mean ms and not us? Seems more likely for an HTTP service.

Thanks for your feedback. Always good to have an extra set of eyes!

To check if the numbers make sense, I dumped the raw data used to compute these stats and compared elli_stats with the same functions in R and they match up.

Post reply on HN