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		fud101 on Aug 29, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Elixir saves Pinterest $2M a year in server costs I've been bit by this. In reality you need to know your shit when it comes to tuning the Beam and GC to achieve decent performance under load without triggering OOM.

pdimitar on Aug 29, 2023 [–]

Not denying it, yeah, it's a blind spot and it's one of the more advanced topics when you start having actually loaded nodes in production.

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