undefined | Better HN

0 pointssjtgraham9y ago0 comments

Because Phoenix has a WS abstraction (Channels) and supports it out of the box.

0 comments

Yes but isn't one of Elixir's strenghts that it scales very well on a single machine? Why do we need the load balancing?

iEchoic9y ago

Every backend architecture should account for having multiple machines. What are you going to do once you get enough traffic that one machine can't handle it?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

0 pointssjtgraham9y ago0 comments

Because Phoenix has a WS abstraction (Channels) and supports it out of the box.

0 comments

Swennemans9y ago

Yes but isn't one of Elixir's strenghts that it scales very well on a single machine? Why do we need the load balancing?

iEchoic9y ago

Every backend architecture should account for having multiple machines. What are you going to do once you get enough traffic that one machine can't handle it?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse