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		brightball on July 11, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users I so appreciate write ups that get into details of microsecond size performance gains at that scale. It's a huge help for the community.

_asummers on July 11, 2017 [–]

Erlang and Elixir measure in microseconds, so it'd be them throwing away information if they did otherwise!

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