Comment at: https://elixirforum.com/t/elixirconf-2023-jeffery-utter-scaling-teams-with-kafka-on-the-beam/60013 https://2023.elixirconf.com/presenters#speaker-jeffery-utter-elixirconf-us-2023 The team at theScore has grown by leaps and bounds over the past two years thanks to technologies including Elixir and Kafka. Kafka has enabled us to rapidly and successfully scale our backend services and teams. It’s not all rainbows and unicorns - all technology choices come with their own tradeoffs and downsides. We’ll explore horror stories as well as wins, techniques enabling autonomy, and tips-and-tricks for performance. Attendees can expect to learn how Kafka can help enable autonomous, decoupled teams. We’ll cover the social and organizational implications as well as technical details of using Kafka in an organization that makes heavy use of Elixir.