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davidwlast Wednesday at 2:33 PM1 replyview on HN

> this can easily happen in a BEAM system

Wait... I thought all you had to do is write it in Erlang and it scales magically!


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toast0last Wednesday at 2:39 PM

Erlang makes a lot of hard things possible, some tricky things easy, and some easy things tricky.

There's no magic fairy dust. Just a lot of things that fit together in nice ways if you use them well, and blow up in predictable ways if you have learned how to predict the system.

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