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GigCityElixir23 - Bryan Hunter

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Bryan Hunter's GigCityElixir 2023 talk on HCA Healthcare's Waterpark system, built on Elixir/Erlang. It describes how the architecture is distributed and fault-tolerant, with a multi-datacenter cluster and runtime code swapping.

HN recommends it as a rare real-world look at a large fault-tolerant Erlang/Elixir system with no downtime in healthcare.

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@rramadass2024-01 · in “The Erlang Ecosystem (2018) [video]”

After watching the above which gives one an idea of the Erlang System's capabilities, watch this presentation by Bryan Hunter where the design and architecture of a complete distributed and fault-tolerant Erlang/Elixir system is shown; You get to really see the mind-blowing power of the Erlang System in this - ▶ this video

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@rramadass2023-12 · in “Ask HN: Good examples of fault-tolerant Erlang code?”

Not code but an excellent presentation of design/architecture of a Real-World fault-tolerant and distributed System in Erlang/Elixir - ▶ this video

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@chantepierre2025-07 · in “Leveraging Elixir's hot code loading capabilities to modularize a monolithic app”

To add to this topic, people who do not know about erlang's hot code loading should watch this talk : ▶ this video A multi-DC running cluster where parts are progressively swapped at runtime. No database, only OTP.

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@GCUMstlyHarmls2024-12 · in “Elixir/Erlang Hot Swapping Code (2016)”

This is a talk about a large scale, resilient elixir/erlang deployment in healthcare. Specifically they talk about running with no down time using hot code reloading here: ▶ this video but the whole talk is quite interesting regarding availability. Warning: the video is quite quiet.

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@notpublic2023-06 · in “A LiveView Is a Process”

This video may be of interest to you: ▶ this video Bryan Hunter explains how they do it at HCA healthcare (not specifically LiveView process, but processes in general).

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