A Database-less App Framework?

[AstonJ]

You might like this post from Joe Armstrong:

What makes a web application fast?

You have to remember that any SQL database will be a bottleneck since there is an impedance mismatch between the way dayt is represented in a daybase and the way it is represented in the beam VM. Databases are basically rectangular tables of cells, where the cells contain very simple types like strings and integers - every time you access a row of an external database this list of cells has to be converted to beam internal data structures - this conversion is extremely expensive. The best way …

And the discussion that followed:

Acceptance of Erlang's 'term_to_binary' and vice versa in Elixir

I’m playing with Elixir - It’s fun. I think @rvirding does give Elixir courses these days. Re: files and database - when I given Erlang courses I say the three best things about erlang are processes, links and term_to_binary and the same should be true of Elixir (since these have nothing to do with the surface syntax and are properties of the beam VM) I may be wrong but I don’t seem much use of term_to_binary in Elixir - this is the great way to store anything on disk or communicate between s…