86: SavvyCal and Indie SaaS with Derrick Reimer
Thinking Elixir Podcast
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Is Elixir a Competitive Advantage?
SavvyCal still runs on a single Heroku dyno. It hums along like at 40% memory utilization. Doesn't really spike above that. And we serve a lot of work, we take in a lot of web books from calendar providers. So every time someone who connects their Google calendar, we subscribe to updates so that if someone cancels an event on the calendar, those changes propagate back to SavvyCal. That means there's just a fire hose of data coming our way all the time. No problem. The biggest bottleneck has been like, you know, database, like if we overwhelm the database connections. We've had to just kind of throw more money at that for
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