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hungryblankon Why Erlang?

BEAM has this very interesting concept of scheduling, working from a very high level point of view as follow

1) there are a number of processes wanting to be executed

2) schedulers (generally one per core but is a configuration option) schedule on process and run it for a fair amount of operations. This makes systems with heavy parallelism run very smoothly since single processes won't hog cores but will only get a fair amount of scheduling.

On top of that the fact that the BEAM is directly aware of processes (actors) makes the system very transparent (you can look in depth into a single process and examine it's heap size, scheduling consumption google for erlang process_info to get an idea)

Very interesting with this regard are the slides about the erlang VM by Robert Virding http://goo.gl/PHfeh and from erlang "half word" VM talk by Patrik Nyblom http://goo.gl/2LD9S

hungryblankon Tumblr Architecture - 15B Page Views a Month and Harder to Scale than Twitter

You do not write an article about technology by vomiting hundreds of bullet points mentioning every technology a company ever used. It's an appallingly bad example of technical journalism. This is not informational, it's just bullet point driven bike shedding.

hungryblankon Ask HN: Thoughts about qui.tw (geolocation shortener)

Thanks, good point about the twitter association, I guess that's just the first use I thought of and it made the design sort of playful. For trips and multiple landmarks I'm wondering how I can keep the UI simpler than google maps so it can still make sense to use qui.tw vs google maps + any url shortener.