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		mononcqc on July 12, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users The trick is more commonly used when writing to sockets. A socket owner is required for reading, not for writing. The trick then is that when you need to write lots of data to a socket to just send a copy of it to the writer so they can dump all their data for cheap, but without changing ownership (which is costly). Also recently I've gotten http://propertesting.com/ out, you might enjoy it :)

rdtsc on July 12, 2017 [–]

Thanks for explaining. I'll have to remember the socket trick.

> Also recently I've gotten http://propertesting.com/ out, you might enjoy it :)

It might be just what I need to understand and start using property tests. I've tried twice and gave up.

Oh and recon! Thanks for that too. Use it almost every day.

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