<story><title>The Road to 2M Websocket Connections in Phoenix</title><url>http://www.phoenixframework.org/v1.0.0/blog/the-road-to-2-million-websocket-connections</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>polskibus</author><text>Great job Phoenix team! I wonder how much of this wouldn&amp;#x27;t even be possible if not for the great BEAM platform and Cowboy web server.&lt;p&gt;Whatsapp famously works with 2m connections on a FreeBSD box (this number is old, I bet they&amp;#x27;ve beaten that number). 
&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;highscalability.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;2&amp;#x2F;26&amp;#x2F;the-whatsapp-architecture-facebook-bought-for-19-billion.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;highscalability.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;2&amp;#x2F;26&amp;#x2F;the-whatsapp-archi...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I wonder whether these two cases are in any way comparable. Different stacks, different machines, different test. The only similarity being BEAM&amp;#x2F;Erlang used as a platform. Speaks well of its scalability!</text></comment>
<story><title>The Road to 2M Websocket Connections in Phoenix</title><url>http://www.phoenixframework.org/v1.0.0/blog/the-road-to-2-million-websocket-connections</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chrismccord</author><text>My ElixirConfEU keynote gave a high-level overview of the channels design for those interested - quick jump to place in presentation:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;u21S_vq5CTw?t=22m34s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;u21S_vq5CTw?t=22m34s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m also happy to answer any other questions. The team is very excited about our channel and pubsub layers progress over the last year.</text></comment>