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by rlander
2613 days ago
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So, in a Python-only org, someone with no Erlang experience decided to ship his first ever server to production, thinking Erlang would be a magic bullet to “scalability issues”. Obviously, there were maintainability issues and the org, blaming the language, decided to switch back to python. To me, the fact that a novice was able to deploy production code that went on unmaintained for months, running a crucial part of the operation, speaks positively about Erlang. |
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I didn't see anywhere in the article blaming the language - can you find a quote to support your assertion?
From the article: "After two years of iteration, the code has become difficult to maintain. No one on our team is an Erlang expert, and we have had trouble debugging downtime and performance problems. So, we decided to rewrite it in Python, the de-facto language at Mixpanel."