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Optimising for maintainability – Gleam in production at Strand

A case study of Gleam in production at Strand

As the application gradually grew larger and more complex, the company’s small development team wanted to ensure that the system would remain reliable, maintainable and scalable. “We do have systems that are written in mainstream programming languages like Python and JavaScript, but our strategy is to pick the best tool for the job, not just the most popular,” explains Ed Kelly. The BEAM was developed by Ericsson in the 1980s as a fault-tolerant platform for managing large telephone switches that need to handle thousands of calls simultaneously and can never be taken offline for maintenance.

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