We sat down with co-host Cade Ward to hear how he and his team tackled a problem of hosting live web chats with crowds of 120K+ users coming together for live events. On the show, we have talked with a couple guests with similar bursting high-load situations. Cade had been through it too so it was time to dig in and cover how this situation can be solved. We cover the different attempts and temporary solutions used and the final solution that has been working really well. In fact it works so well, during a recent event, the auto-scaling didn’t kick in and everything was still fine!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/57

Elixir Community News

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/pull/4377 – Phoenix v1.6 will officially use esbuild!
https://twitter.com/sorentwo/status/1417462054114537476 – Parker Selbert identified the issue counts linked to JS packaging... ~30% of total issues!
https://twitter.com/mcrumm/status/1417141537541033985 – Phoenix View can now be used as a separate package
https://utils.zest.dev/gendiff – David's tool for diffing generated projects. Includes support for the different flags.
https://hexdocs.pm/k8s/changelog.html#1-0-0-2021-07-19 – The "k8s" library was updated and got a 1.0 release tag
https://pragprog.com/titles/lmelixir/testing-elixir/ – The Book "Testing Elixir" launched in Beta
https://twitter.com/remote/status/1414919265841557510 – Remote raises $150M and is using Elixir
https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/pull/418 – Livebook UX improvement to restart runtime when Mix.install packages changed
https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/pull/449 – Support for "branching sections" added to Livebook notebooks
https://github.com/wojtekmach/notebooks/blob/main/client_server.livemd – Wojtek Mach created a notebook using branching sections to create a client-server setup in a single notebook
https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/pull/441 – Livebook notebooks can link to each other
https://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2021-July/101209.html – Frank Hunleth of the Nerves project encountered performance issue when shutting down a node. Interesting discussion with the OTP Team.
https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/5032 – OTP PR opened for speeding up controlled shutdowns
https://github.com/fhunleth/nerves_livebook/releases/tag/v0.2.14 – Nerves 1.7.9 is out with minor updates to all systems and toolchain
https://nervesconf.com/ – Nerves Conf October 11 in Austin Texas, timed with ElixirConf

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com

Discussion Resources

https://elixirforum.com/t/implementing-a-distributed-users-counter/39609 – Link to Cade's Elixir Forum post with discussion
https://gist.github.com/cadebward/c24fc4aced526d9d35bb00a6a8140784 – Gist of the Cade's working solution
https://www.vidangel.com/ – First incarnation of company before pivot
https://invest.angel.com/ – Angel Studios kickstarter like projects
https://elixirforum.com/
http://angel.com/apply – Angel Studios is hiring!

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/cadebward – on Twitter
https://github.com/cadebward/ – on Github

Find us online

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57: Scaling Live Chat with Cade Ward

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57: Scaling Live Chat with Cade Ward