“The solution uses:
- Less than 20 large instances running on Azure
- An in-memory database
- A full blown custom LISP language written in C to implement queries, which is many times faster that having a VM (with a garbage collector) online all the time
- Erlang for communication between nodes
- Modified TCP_TIMEWAIT_LEN for an astonishing drop of 40K connections, saving on CPU, memory and TCP buffers…”
