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Agree that BEAM is great and very scalable. I guess I disagree with the notion that Redis and DynamoDB are "centralized" and "brittle". Rather both are distributed, robust, and, I would add, battle-tested.

I do like the idea of a Typescript to BEAM compiler but that is beyond my capabilities and interests. Maybe someone lurking here could do that?



They're not brittle when running -- they're brittle if/when there's a failure.

Bringing a Redis cluster back up is either "start each node in exactly the right order", "wait 10+ minutes", or "establish quorum yourself". Ten minutes can be a really long time in production.




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