SMRTR ProgrammingApr 5, 2026lobste.rs

Rails on the BEAM

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Juntos runs Rails applications on Erlang's BEAM VM using QuickBEAM, keeping existing Ruby code unchanged while gaining BEAM's fault tolerance and parallelism. This enables incremental migration from Rails to Phoenix without complete rewrites.

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