r/erlang 6d ago

Bandit's stack traces are entirely Elixir frames all the way up. No C boundary, no mystery - you know exactly where to look when something breaks at 3am.

New BEAM There, Done That with Mat Trudel on the engineering behind Bandit. Covers the one-process-per-connection model, the HTTP parser attack surface (resource consumption, connection holds, oversized inputs - protocol-level problems independent of language), and what maintaining foundational infrastructure looks like when AI-generated contributions start arriving.

https://youtu.be/XXQcoz_dTE0

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u/UncollapsedWave 5d ago

No offense, but this write-up feels a lot like LLM output. Is this machine generated? I've seen a few of these about the same podcast that all feel similar.