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GigCityElixir23 - Bryan Hunter
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.
Why HN readers recommended it
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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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Groxio
- Topic
- fault-tolerant distributed systems
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 4
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2023–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Not code but an excellent presentation of design/architecture of a Real-World fault-tolerant and distributed System in Erlang/Elixir - [VIDEO]
rramadass on Hacker News · 2023-12
In Ask HN: Good examples of fault-tolerant Erlang code?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 …
rramadass on Hacker News · 2024-01
In The Erlang Ecosystem (2018) [video]This video may be of interest to you: [VIDEO] Bryan Hunter explains how they do it at HCA healthcare (not specifically LiveView process, but processes in general).
notpublic on Hacker News · 2023-06
In A LiveView Is a Process
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