[dfischer]

I hesitate using Erlang/elixir for this than aws lambda + event distribution. Any thoughts?

[abritinthebay]

If you don't need low latency and are ok with the extra architectural overhead... there's nothing wrong with that.

Different use cases

[dfischer]

Many are preaching erlang/elixir on the OTP/microservice alternative paradigm – that doesn't seem as attractive as the low latency resiliency.

At least to me, as a story.

[abritinthebay]

Well... it's a win for both. It means it's easy to write performant and highly concurrent microservices.

Latency is part of that.

[vikiomega9]

Isn't aws lambda better suited for short running tasks?

[dfischer]

What's a long running task?

[vikiomega9]

I think heuristic is running time of about 5 or 10 minutes.