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It's going to be hard to get close to BEAMs scaling story. I think you could build something on top of, like, nats.io and get similar scaling semantics. But centralized DBs are brittle for this kind of platform. Redis and DynamoDB are great ... just not for this.

This is extreme and maybe true. The best way to make TypeScript scale like BEAM might be to build a TypeScript -> Beam compiler. :D

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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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