DrupalCon Seattle 2019: Real-Time Drupal or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Elixir

This talk explores the transition of web applications to real-time capabilities through the use of websockets, which facilitate a stateful persistent connection. The speaker discusses the challenges of implementing websockets with PHP and Drupal, emphasizing Drupal's reliance on HTTP requests. The session highlights Elixir, a language built on Erlang, and Phoenix, a channel-based framework designed to address concurrency limitations in Ruby, making them ideal for scalable real-time applications. Attendees gain insights into how to effectively integrate Elixir and Phoenix with Drupal to enhance digital experiences with real-time technology.