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by andsoitis 1031 days ago
> they didn't use Distributed Elixir at all, just plain old Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis and GRPC

There must be a good rationale for that decision. Do you know what it is?
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sodapopcan 1031 days ago
There's a good article about BEAM + k8s by José Valim [0]

[0] https://dashbit.co/blog/kubernetes-and-the-erlang-vm-orchest...

You could certainly get away without some of the other stuff but, as another comment has mentioned, it requires some infra know-how. Like, you can't "just" use ETS as a Redis replacement without setting it up in a way that its data won't get blown away during a blue-green deploy.

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sarchertech 1031 days ago
There may or may not be “good” rationale. Could just be that most people using elixir are coming from other languages/ecosystems where all of that is normal.

Also in my experience, most of the time, the infrastructure team doesn’t know anything about elixir.

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