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I use Go and it gives me a good sweet spot between cost and perf.

I’m nowhere close to performance requirements of Pinterest. But my auth service runs on a single 1vcpu, 512mb ram, and 10gb ssd. I use leveldb and swap on the 10gb. I’ve benchmarked it to handle 8-9k rps while delivering 150ms max response time. Not bad for a few bucks a month.

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And? Comparing apples and oranges?

I'm running seven Elixir/Phoenix apps (one of these is umbrella with 12 apps) on shared CPU cheap VPS with 1gb memory. I actually ran out of disk space recently than anything else so far.

Good thing about Go is that it is easy to learn and hire for.

Go is pretty easy. The hard thing about go is maintaining proper structure. Sounds like not a big deal but trust me I’ve learned the hard way lol.

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