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by KingOfCoders 1512 days ago
Something to learn for everybody, the article is mainly about Linux tuning.
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The Linux tuning part seems to have been inspired by these blog posts from 14 years ago: https://www.metabrew.com/article/a-million-user-comet-applic...

It's almost a little disappointing that beefy modern servers only manage a x5 scale improvement, though that could be due to the differences in runtime behaviour between Erlang and the JVM.

I mean... is 5M very impressive? Not really. Does it show that Project Loom meets the goal of being able to do large client count thread per server workloads? I think so. Does the name remind me of a best selling point and click adventure game? Definitely yes.