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Me too. I mean, 5 millions is not that many users. It requires work, but it's not Google size by any mean. It's just a successful service.

Give that the whole selling point of Erlang/Elixir is scalability at the price of the rest, the article is really telling me to avoid the tech.

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5 million concurrent users, connected at the same time, sending and receiving data through a persistent connection. Phoenix itself got 2 million on a single node: http://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/the-road-to-2-million-w...

They likely have much more than 5 million users.

To put this amount in perspective, you get 5 million connections after receiving 3000 connections per second, which are never dropped and remain connected, for ~28 minutes. The majority of websites do not get even 300 requests per second.

It's 5M Concurrent Users. And Google-size services can't be built with just a language. It needs much more work to do.

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