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The engineering case studies that prove what the BEAM can actually do When engineers debate programming languages, the conversation often stays abstract. Performance benchmarks. Theoretical comparisons. "In principle, the actor model should scale better than..." Let's stop being abstract. There are companies running the BEAM at a scale most engineers will never encounter, with documented results. The numbers are not theoretical. The engineers who built these systems have written about them. L...