Is this true even for “old style” web development without persistent connections from clients?
I see Elixir as a perfect fit for modern web sites with soft real time features (real time notifications, automatic field completion with server side intervention, chat etc.) since you have a lots of clients with a persistent connection, each of them requiring few work on the server.
But let’s consider “old style” sites where client is just served a dynamic page, cached when possible to reduce database access. And we place it behind a reverse proxy which buffers communications from and to clients (so our Elixir/Phoenix server only communicates with the local proxy, and is not impacted by slow clients). Is this still a problem domain which fits Elixir or a more “raw-speed” approach should be explored?
This in mostly out of curiosity and for better understanding: I’m moving to Elixir/Phoenix because I find them very well thought, well documented and robust, not for performances (which of course is a nice plus but not that important to me).
