[rdtsc]

> By decentralizing your state, you've increased your inter-process synchronization requirements.

But you've also increased your reliabily as well. Who cares if the tight single threaded application with a shared heap cand handle 100K connections, if as soon as one of those connection leads to a segfault, all the other 99999 crash as well.

[jeffdavis]

A single Erlang server can handle 2M connections[1].

[1] https://blog.whatsapp.com/196/1-million-is-so-2011?