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Achieving 100k connections per second with Elixir
In this article, we explain how to scale Elixir to handle 100k connections per second.
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The Curious Case of BEAM CPU Usage
While benchmarking Go vs Elixir vs Node, we discovered that Elixir (running on the BEAM virtual machine) had much higher CPU usage than Go, and yet its responsiveness remained excellent. Some of our readers suggested that busy waiting might be responsible for this behavior.
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Benchmarking Go vs Node vs Elixir
In this benchmark test, we compare three web application servers—Go, Node, and Elixir (Cowboy)—by subjecting each to a synthetic workload, first with 10k, and later with 100k connections.
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Finding the Bogeyman
In Tracy Kidder’s classic chronicle “The Soul of a New Machine”, Tom West is directing the last-ditch engineering effort behind a new computer for Data General Corporation, against an impossible deadline.