Keynote: Building an emergency software
summary
Nailinda is an emergency system that sends USSD menus (no internet required) to capture location, landmark and emergency type, returns nearest hospitals and pushes a notification to the hospital which must reply yes we can handle you or no we cannot, built with Phoenix and Elixir and USSD gateway APIs; currently in soft launch with real hospitals and users but no confirmed lives saved yet. Parallel work replaces a costly websocket provider with an Elixir channels service (cut monthly bills from ~$15,000 to a fraction), deployed via Heroku, Docker/Kubernetes and GitLab CI/CD.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 2:31Talk expectations Not a technical talk
- 18:04Uptime is a life saved Reliability rules
- 19:02Has elixir saved a life yet?
- 20:11Farming for food
- 34:45One last thing...
- 35:15Disclaimer
- 38:25Thank you for taking this journey with us!
