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Go maybe faster than Erlang in raw throughput but Erlang can compete with Go in Latency (mainly predictable latency). As you said it all depends on the scenario. The article is mainly in the scenario of betting infrastructure where I think erlang is better due to OTP (saying this as a person who works on building trading systems and daily user of both).

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"When you pit Go’s requests per seconds against the likes of Ruby on Rails or Django, Go returns some impressive benchmarks performing 3x better. Go can scale to hundreds of thousands with relative ease, in much the same way that Erlang and Elixir scale to millions."

He's talking about raw performance where Go is much faster than Erlang and still talking about different order of magnitude to diminish Go.

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