Episode 59: EMx 059: Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11 Million Concurrent Users with Matt Nowack
Elixir Mix
English - July 09, 2019 10:00 - 54 minutes - 53.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsHow To Education Business Careers elixir erlang programming code software development developer functional Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Panel
Mark Ericksen
Josh Adams
Michael Ries
Eric Oestrich
Joined by Special Guests: Matt Nowack
Summary
Matt Nowack, a developer at Discord, gives an intro to Discord and shares its origin story. The panel discusses the problems that Discord was having because of its 11 million concurrent users. Matt talks about when they knew there was a problem, how they used a runtime VM to find the problem, the tools they tried to fix the problem and how they landed on NIFs to fix the problem. The panel discusses the risks of using NIFs and how using Rust helps negate that risk. Matt discusses the reference counter in the rustler package and answers questions about using dirty schedulers. Discord developers publish many blogs and publish many open source projects; Matt shares the Discord philosophy on open sourcing and contributing to the Elixir community.
Links
https://github.com/discordapp/sorted_set_nif
https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler
Matthew Nowack - ZenMonitor: Scaling Distributed Monitoring at Discord | Code BEAM SF 19
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fates_Forever
http://erlang.org/doc/tutorial/nif.html
https://blog.discordapp.com/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-11-million-concurrent-users-c6f19fc029d3
https://github.com/discordapp/sorted_set_nif
https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/a-guide-to-tracing-in-elixir.html
https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2019/06/24/elixir-v1-9-0-released/
https://twitter.com/ihumanable
https://www.facebook.com/Elixir-Mix
https://twitter.com/elixir_mix
Picks
Mark Ericksen:
https://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/havasupai.htm
https://waterfallsofthegrandcanyon.com/havasu-falls/havasupai-waterfalls/
Josh Adams:
https://sorbet.org/blog/2019/06/20/open-sourcing-sorbet
Michael Ries:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/
https://www.youtube.com/user/flitetest
Eric Oestrich:
https://podcast.smartlogic.io/
Matt Nowack:
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(TV_series)
Special Guest: Matt Nowack.
Sponsors
Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan
Panel
Mark Ericksen
Josh Adams
Michael Ries
Eric Oestrich
Joined by Special Guests: Matt Nowack
Summary
Matt Nowack, a developer at Discord, gives an intro to Discord and shares its origin story. The panel discusses the problems that Discord was having because of its 11 million concurrent users. Matt talks about when they knew there was a problem, how they used a runtime VM to find the problem, the tools they tried to fix the problem and how they landed on NIFs to fix the problem. The panel discusses the risks of using NIFs and how using Rust helps negate that risk. Matt discusses the reference counter in the rustler package and answers questions about using dirty schedulers. Discord developers publish many blogs and publish many open source projects; Matt shares the Discord philosophy on open sourcing and contributing to the Elixir community.
Links
https://github.com/discordapp/sorted_set_nif
https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler
Matthew Nowack - ZenMonitor: Scaling Distributed Monitoring at Discord | Code BEAM SF 19
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fates_Forever
http://erlang.org/doc/tutorial/nif.html
https://blog.discordapp.com/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-11-million-concurrent-users-c6f19fc029d3
https://github.com/discordapp/sorted_set_nif
https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/a-guide-to-tracing-in-elixir.html
https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2019/06/24/elixir-v1-9-0-released/
https://twitter.com/ihumanable
https://www.facebook.com/Elixir-Mix
https://twitter.com/elixir_mix
Picks
Mark Ericksen:
https://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/havasupai.htm
https://waterfallsofthegrandcanyon.com/havasu-falls/havasupai-waterfalls/
Josh Adams:
https://sorbet.org/blog/2019/06/20/open-sourcing-sorbet
Michael Ries:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/
https://www.youtube.com/user/flitetest
Eric Oestrich:
https://podcast.smartlogic.io/
Matt Nowack:
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(TV_series)
Special Guest: Matt Nowack.