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Articles about Performance

Elixir ETS + Mnesia vs Redis

Elixir | DevOps | - September 27, 2016 // Barry @ Codeship

Learning Elixir has a way of challenging everything you know about programming. Redis is becoming an assumed part of many web stacks, in the same breath as your database. But with Elixir, do you need it? Do you even need a database?

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