Scaling

Most engineers think GC is slow. They’re wrong. Coordination is slow. Pony’s per-actor heaps and message-passing model eliminate the coordination that makes traditional garbage collectors a performance problem.

A Papers We Love talk on how Pony uses deny capabilities to give you data-race freedom and fearless concurrency.

Applying Pat Helland’s ideas from ‘Life Beyond Distributed Transactions’ to build stateful applications that scale almost infinitely.

Write your Python code without thinking about scale, then run it on a platform that handles scaling for you.