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# Reactor Under the Hood: Building a Graph-Based Saga Orchestrator in Elixir, James Harton

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## Summary

A talk announcement for Code BEAM covers building Reactor, a graph-based saga orchestrator implemented in Elixir, presented by James Harton. The forum post itself is largely a generic welcome message inviting readers to join the Elixir Forum community, with links to community features like monthly giveaways.

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