thibaut_barrere

I wrote it pre-AI, using cachex!

It is open-source:

https://github.com/etalab/transport-site/tree/master/apps/tr...

Sure, peaks are much higher. But a good part of it is reverse proxying with in-memory caching and locking, which I've implemented in several stacks over the years, and many struggle with it (I have been paid to do comprehensive benchmarks on the topic). On the BEAM it's a non-event.

~160 req/s on average, higher peaks. Not trying to impress anyone though, my point was that LLMs work perfectly fine on an Elixir codebase, and that we get future-proof ops on a single node with zero issues. In my experience, it has been easier than with any other stack I've tried.

Fair enough! That’s how we track growth, it’s easier to communicate to state sponsors.

Roughly 14M per day, but growing 2.5 to 3 on a YoY basis.

My point stands though: much more serenity in ops with that growth, and LLMs do work nicely, especially when most of the code is stateless by language design.

I use Elixir (BEAM-based), with LLMs daily, on a fast growing site (current pace is 5 billion HTTP queries per year on a single front node).

Elixir is well handled by LLMs at this point, and we keep the “easy to scale and maintain” aspect (operational characteristics of the runtime are very good).

I can safely say that total cost of ownership is excellent.

Yes:

> Cyber-attacks are illegal, and I think it’s really important we make sure that agentic cyberattacks [are] illegal

Pleading guilty

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2249390

I planned to revive it later, but life got in the way

More people than you think (outside tech) are using Intel Macs at the moment (family computers etc).

They (from the cases I know at least) already posted record profits with a lower inflation rate.

It’s always the contractor!

Until it is not; some companies are actually putting environnemental & employees health issues with sincerity in their contracts. With shared responsibilities.

Indeed. The banks I deal with in France are unaffected.

This is being done while we speak here.

Happily hosting a site that will cross 4 billion queries per year there, and I didn’t face that banner you mention :-)

Pressure on the road, and profits, are not similar to those induced by pedestrians and cyclists.

Yes but there is a clear relationship between them in most countries!

This is not how authors rights work

Yes but in the case of GH, it also happens in cases where the data is old: not just a temporary drift.

The opt-in is bollocks. I am a LG owner and quite technical and used to legalese too. This will get them fined in Europe.

I like when large projects do that. This gives leeway for sister projects (eg wrappers) to anticipate, room for apps that use it intensively to test things out (release candidate etc), something which has really helped me in the past.

In that specific case I use a Polars wrapper in Elixir (called Explorer) all week long, and I am very happy they are giving us early hints.

I do not read this in the article, I was more understanding that half the kids of the world could be concerned to a level or another, can you quote?

I made a preliminary attempt as well and had the same experience. I hope to renew with a better success.

Just in France, cost of this year heat waves has been estimated between 10 and 15 billion euros (figure shared by a ministre today).

Even before, Turbo Pascal was fairly appreciated in some circles (e.g. demomaking), quite productive and nice to use!

Related: https://saracroche.org/

Some people tend to forget that you got to start somewhere, and a lot of huge undertakings started this way. Such as Linux ;-

It turns out public money is more expensive these days. Debt is a more mainstreamly exposed problem.

Same path & agreed. The amount of things you do not have to care about with BEAM/Elixir compared to Rails is really interesting.

Yes, massive respect for that type of perseverance on long term, important changes.

It is one of these instances where « let the market decide » is not necessarily the best option on the long run.

Afaik the system is being consolidated

https://epicompany.eu/media-insights/ideal-to-phase-into-wer...

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Artificial scarcity + the urge to impose fashion cycles, sadly