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From https://ninenines.eu/docs/en/ranch/2.1/guide/introduction/:
### Why do we care about Ranch?
Well, Ranch is used by Cowboy which is used by Plug.Cowboy, a Cowboy backend
for Plug, which is used by Phoenix, which is the most popular general-use
Elixir web framework. We use it _everywhere_ here at Divvy!
It is relatively simple to understand and makes for an excellent example for
showing the power of Erlang/OTP (and therefore Elixir!)
### So what the heck is it?
> Ranch is a socket acceptor pool for TCP protocols.
Ok, neat. What in the world does this mean?
Ok, neat. What in the world does this mean? "Socket"? "Acceptor"? "Pool"?!
I mean, I know what a TCP is. I use the internet. But...
### What is a Socket?