🤓 FullstackBulletin issue 30: How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5,000,000 Concurrent Users

To iterate is human, to recurse divine

                July 31, 2017

            🤓 FullstackBulletin issue 30: How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5,000,000 Concurrent Users

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How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5,000,000 Concurrent Users

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                  "To iterate is human, to recurse divine"

                  — 
                  L. Peter Deutsch,
                    Software developer and Entrepreneur

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Best 7 links of week #30, 2017

How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5,000,000 Concurrent Users

An amazing use case of Elixir (and its underlying Erlang VM) that underlines the promising capabilities of this language and its architecture.

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The MVC Design Pattern in Vanilla JavaScript

With this tutorial, you will finally stop abstracting JavaScript with frameworks and you will learn how to implement the MVC design pattern (model-view-controller) in vanilla JavaScript.

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The Website Speed Test Image Analysis Tool

It is hard to overstate the effect that images have on the average web page’s performance; faster websites have a broader reach and a higher impact. The first and most important thing you can do to improve the performance of your website’s images is figuring out how to measure them.

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You Might Not Need jQuery

The DOM and native browser API's have improved by leaps and bounds since jQuery's release all the way back in 2006. People have been writing "You Might Not need it anymore". Is it really true?

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UUID or GUID as Primary Keys? Be Careful!

You can use of UUIDs as the primary key to avoid database scale problems. But should you? This article proposes an interesting alternative.

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Designing The Perfect Slider

In this article, we’ll look into the fine details of designing better slider controls for selecting a value or a range of values. Think of price range sliders, 360-degree-view sliders, timeline sliders, health insurance quote calculators, or build-your-own-mobile-plan features... the possibilities are only limited by your imagination.

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Google not Amazon — Make fantastic savings in a serverless world

In this opinionated article, Andrew Walker explains why you should start considering to use Google cloud for your next project instead of Amazon Web Services, especially if you are thinking to adopt serverless architectures.

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Book of the week

Mastering Symfony

                                        by Sohail Salehi

In this book, you will learn some lesser known aspects of development with Symfony, and you will see how to use Symfony as a framework to create reliable and effective applications. You might have developed some impressive PHP libraries in other projects, but what is the point when your library is tied to one particular project? With Symfony, you can turn your code into a service and reuse it in other projects.

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