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Why weren't your processes dropping messages? Also I think you can tell the VM to not allow the process to exceed a certain message size and trigger some sort of rate limiting or scaling out

Edit: huh. I could swear the VM had memory limit options. Guess not. Time to rewrite it in zig!



Yeah, I think that's the assumption people had been operating under.

That team would have thoroughly endorsed a zig rewrite! It was a very odd situation where most of us liked erlang the language but found the beam to be an annoying beast, whereas most of the world seems to be the opposite.




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