[Chicago] Erlang to Python

[Brian Herman]

Sorry, guys I didn't know this was a massive troll.

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Daniel Griffin <dgriff1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> It seems like they could have rewritten it better in Erlang. It also seems
> like if they ever want to scale past 1 process running on one core they are
> going to have to figure out how to share those global stateful data
> structures. Language only matters so much.
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Garrett Smith <g at rre.tt> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Brian Herman <bherma3 at uic.edu> wrote:
>> >
>> http://code.mixpanel.com/2011/08/05/how-and-why-we-switched-from-erlang-to-python/
>>
>> I'm looking forward to the next post: "Why We Stopped Asking Interns
>> to Rewrite Performance Critical Systems".
>>
>> >From what I can see, the only reason for the "switch" is that no one
>> there knew Erlang.
>>
>> But that's hardly a very fun assessment. So, at the intern's expense...
>>
>> "This server needs to scale, which for Python means using asynchronous
>> I/O"
>>
>> Of course this is utter nonsense. But oh, the fine puzzles that derive
>> from it!
>>
>> "string processing is very frequently the limiting factor in networked
>> systems because you have to serialize data every time you want to
>> transfer it"
>>
>> That, and waiting for *really* slow things like disks and networks.
>> But having blazing fast string processing is a fun problem to solve.
>> For interns.
>>
>> Not that anyone should care because "string processing" is typically
>> not a bottleneck, but Erlang has a C-based JSON library that's just as
>> fast as the other C-based JSON libraries.
>>
>> "Finally, we use a few stateful, global data structures..."
>>
>> I read this a couple time before concluding it was actually a troll
>> script from one of the talking bear videos.
>>
>> "I’ve learned a lot about how to scale a real service in the couple of
>> weeks I’ve been here."
>>
>> Oh intern, would that I could return to my own youth -- rife with
>> sweet, blissful ignorance.
>>
>> Garrett
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Thanks,
Brian Herman

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