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…operations. In the article, the author scales CPU cycle times into more understandable human times. If a single CPU cycle was the equivalent of 1 second, then a network call from California to New York, would be the equivalent of 4 years. That is how much slower network is. For some rough estimates, let’s say a normal network call insid…

“I think Erlang was web scale even before the web was invented. The focus was no down time and high availability, ensuring that when you pick up your phone, you wi…

Of course, Scala also introduces a new type system that can do some pretty crazy stuff beyond what is possible in Java. But even Scala’s insanely sophisticated type system isn’t a complete departure from what came before. If anything, t…