[ellyagg]

> In a way, this "totalizing" can be looked at as a pro rather than a con.

Yep, if you want to write a new concurrent system, you will move much faster living inside this integrated environment.

And of course vertical scaling is easier than horizontal. It'll be a long time before you outgrow a huge server.

And if it's not, that's a nice problem to have. So you split off parts of the app into other servcies and erlang/elixir is wonderful at communicating with/controlling other network addressable services.

The problem with erlang is that it's both harder to get started and has a lower ceiling than some other languages. But there's a huge middle class of software that would really benefit from it if they got over the initial hump.