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by glazeshadow 1866 days ago
But Erlang / Elixir seemed very promising to me.

- Supervisor processes. - Small process size. - Failure friendly design.

All of which allows easy vertical / horizontal scaling, robust concurrency and scalability, and automated process management.

Seemed promising the way WhatsApp / Discord have used this. Obviously not a classic DevOps deployment or a direct competitor for Kubernetes. But doesn't disruption happen from the sidelines?