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The argument that you don't have to restart the server after editing a file? I mean I've used a couple of web dev environments and I know for a fact that Rails, Django and Express all come with some sort of automatic reloading in development - provided by the framework itself or by a library. Quite sure there is a solution for most environments.

or just `heroku pg:backups:download -a [app]` :)

I'm on third place in Google for "rails iodine" now, lol

First time I hear about them, too. Googling Rails + Iodine doesn't yield much information. I'm going to try replacing Puma in one of my Rails apps. The benchmarks suggest that this could be a real win.

Yes I guess with the right hardware everything is possible. The question is if you can get away with smaller hardware when using non-relational databases. Well one would have to test this.

Interesting thread, thanks

I said concurrent users as in users that are online at the same time, each of them probably connected via WebSocket streaming and sending messages.... Thanks for the downvote...

Regarding Postgresql, are you denying that relational DBs are less suited for write intensive tasks than say a NoSQL DB like MongoDB is? And couldn't a chat with thousands of users be a more than average write intensive scenario?

Zulip is using Python and Postgresql. Is this a great choice of stack for a chat app? I'd love to know how Zulip performs with hundreds of concurrent users.

I am currently looking into Rocket.Chat which is based on Meteor (NodeJS) and MongoDB, a stack which, for me, seems better suited for this kind of app. But hey, I don't know, I haven't done performance tests or anything.

Does anyone know about any hard limits with either Zulip or Rocket.Chat?

Interesting! I think I'd rather be dumb than boring, so this game is not for me.

"New cool helper functions appeared..."

"And yet, although Freudian theories are no longer a part of mainstream science, Freud is still incredibly well-known..."

This is just plain wrong.. the author does not have any sources, no evidence.. just a bold claim, opinion.

What? The mentioned Array methods (map, reduce, filter, etc..) are not new ES6 features