[codewright]

It's not really common or standard to rely on a cluster of VM instances to solve your distributed problems for you these days.

For most programmers: Statelessness is the default, replication and fail-over are the back-up plan.

Talking about Erlang's "fault tolerance" as if it's some sort of secret weapon these days (it was more important 10-20 years ago) is a canard and distracts from the better parts of Erlang.