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Flora Petterson - Building a Highly Available, Distributed Streaming System Using Only Elixir and The BEAMThe Publish-Subscribe Messaging Pattern is an extremely valuable architectural tool in building scalable applications. However, the standard practice of relying on external brokers to manage queuing for incoming messages adds an unnecessary dependency into your system. Instead, you can utilize the benefits of a continuously available system powered by the Erlang VM to safely and reliably store messages from a publication within your application until they are sent to a subscriber. In this talk, I will share lessons learned from working on HCA’s Waterpark, a data integration engine that uses Elixir and the BEAM to be a continuously available streaming system using a distributed database that never touches disk.