Challenges of Scaling and Choosing the Right Tool with Simon Zelazny - EMx 177

In this episode Simon Zelazny joins the mix to talk about his experience in scaling an Elixir and Phython based service to meet a once-in-a-blue-moon demand scenario. The panel and him discuss the challenges in finding the relevant bottlenecks in non-trivial software systems - and BEAM applications in particular - and what options there are to fix those.

They also discuss pragmatism in the context of software development, and how we as software developers are not paid to write pretty code but to solve business problems, which might also mean to choose NOT to build on top of the BEAM, if circumstances demand it.

Sponsors

• Top End Devs
• Coaching | Top End Devs
  
  

Links

• whatnot
• whatnot - careers
• Keeping Up with the Fans: Scaling for Big Events at Whatnot, with Elixir and Phoenix
• Erlang Solutions - Scalable Distributed Technology

"How NOT to Measure Latency" by Gil Tene

Picks

• Allen- K9s - Manage Your Kubernetes Clusters In Style
• Allen- Kubernetic - The Kubernetes Desktop Client
• Sascha- The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read
• Simon - Joe Armstrong’s PHD Thesis - Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors (PDF)
• Simon- Joe's Blog - a non-linear personal web notebook
• Simon- ACM Turing award lectures | ACM Other Books

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