Quaff that potion: saving $millions with Elixir and Erlang - NextRoll

We slashed our DynamoDB costs by over 75% using Kinesis, DynamoDB streams, and Erlang/OTP (and now Elixir) to implement a global cache warming system. We present that system and two new open-source libraries for processing Kinesis and DynamoDB streams in a similar way using Elixir and Erlang. 15-20 minute read AdRoll uses Erlang/OTP as the basis for several internal products, including a real-time