Sure, that's why I highlighted peaks as a more important metric than average. Even an order of magnitude higher peaks over the average is still fairly trivial, compared to where BEAM shines. Maintaining hundreds of thousands of concurrent long-lived connections per server is what it excels at, but also not something that's relevant to 99% of web apps out there.
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Sure, that's why I highlighted peaks as a more important metric than average. Even an order of magnitude higher peaks over the average is still fairly trivial, compared to where BEAM shines. Maintaining hundreds of thousands of concurrent long-lived connections per server is what it excels at, but also not something that's relevant to 99% of web apps out there.