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by Swennemans 3598 days ago
Curious, why would you combine this with Phoenix?
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sjtgraham 3598 days ago
Because Phoenix has a WS abstraction (Channels) and supports it out of the box.
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Swennemans 3598 days ago
Yes but isn't one of Elixir's strenghts that it scales very well on a single machine? Why do we need the load balancing?
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iEchoic 3595 days ago
Every backend architecture should account for having multiple machines. What are you going to do once you get enough traffic that one machine can't handle it?
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