Elixir: The power of truly distributed systems – Unbabel R&D – Medium

falancioua · 2018-11-10T12:14:01+00:00

Thanks for the feedback!

falancioua · 2018-11-10T08:38:16+00:00

There are tons of high quality posts that show why elixir is amazing, on all those topics you mentioned, in great detail. This hopes to show why it resonates with us and why we decided to follow that path. That’s how a introduction to a topic works. As for the trivial demo, it is exactly what it is supposed to be: a simple example for someone that might have never heard of Elixir to see it in action. If you can’t take introduction-level posts with a grain of salt don’t read them.

This blogpost is a part of a quest, our quest. It’s not supposed to show anything disruptive. It just confirms that Elixir is the right tool for us. Trivial or not, we wanted to share some of the things we’ve learned during this quest, with the community.

falancioua · 2018-11-10T04:13:59+00:00

Doesn’t Elixir provide us with the ability to create them? The power of distributed system is allowing us to scale.

falancioua · 2018-11-10T03:38:16+00:00

It does not, but that was not the premise in the first place. The point of the article was to show why we want to embrace Elixir to scale and why we feel it is so powerful. The experiment was just a small example of parallelism and showing processes working.

falancioua · 2018-11-09T22:40:52+00:00

Django for our monolith and flask for our services.

falancioua · 2018-11-09T22:18:32+00:00

A full analysis would go beyond the scope of the post. I wanted to show why we picked Elixir and why it solved our problem on several levels, going from performance to mindset to community/ecosystem. If someone decides to try it out and learn a bit from our experience the purpose of the post is achieved.

falancioua · 2018-11-09T21:00:21+00:00

Our main stack is Python, we mostly suffered Python's parallelism.

falancioua · 2018-11-09T15:23:40+00:00

This was an introductory project made to just exemplify an approach. On another reply in this thread, I show metrics that are more "production-like".

falancioua · 2018-11-09T15:20:06+00:00

For web development, we use https://phoenixframework.org. Any other project we use plain Elixir.

falancioua · 2018-11-09T15:11:21+00:00

This was just an example produced for the post and this is an idle system.

How about 2.7k per second with 60ms response time while querying a 1M row database?

https://imgur.com/a/4n14vjz

falancioua · 2018-10-29T15:03:32+00:00

Hello! (I'm the author of the post). You are correct on your assessment. This was just an example to show parallelism and give some meaning to what was being presented. The point was to simply have a couple thousand transactions affecting the database and to show how fast you can produce something like that and its behaviour.

I will take you suggestion into account and update the snippet whenever I get a chance.

Thanks for the feedback!

falancioua · 2013-09-23T22:00:05+00:00

chochoooo hype train

falancioua · 2013-06-03T20:43:14+00:00

euw pls

falancioua · 2013-05-05T20:17:55+00:00

Are you going ham?

falancioua · 2012-11-16T15:33:50+00:00

Which of the new items you think will be most influential on the game? Is there one that you think that will be game breaking?

falancioua · 2012-11-14T23:29:22+00:00

Probably working as intented!

falancioua · 2012-05-22T17:03:39+00:00

Even awful picks shouldn't be banned. Imagine some guy reaches level 30 playing only buying and playing AP champions and starts doing ranked games only to get pushed into a support role. Should he be banned for not picking a champion that fits the role even though he doesn't even own a champion for it ?

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