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by bcardarella 335 days ago
You'd have to refer to all of the applications running on the BEAM that are distributed across multiple datacenters. Fly.io's entire business model is predicated on globally distributing your application using the BEAM. I'm not sure what that book said exactly perhaps the original intent was local distribution but Erlang has been around for over 30 years at this point. What it's evolved into today is architecturally unique compared to any other language stack and is built for global distribution with performance at scale.
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I didn't know that Fly.io uses Elixir! They even have an entire blog dedicated to their use of Elixir: https://fly.io/phoenix-files/