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		gregors 68 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, an... The problem is the websocket implementation (last time I tested it) sucked. I'm assuming even now if you're doing non-trivial websockets you need to use the node or golang implementation.

aantix 68 days ago [–]

You can swap out the ActionCable backend with different providers.

Redis, postgres. I think there's a couple of commercial offerings.

solid_cable is a database polling mechanism which can also be swapped in.

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