> At any given time there’s only a single running code block.
> But here… there be dragons.
That's one of the things Erlang solves pretty well. Sometimes I sort of envision it as that robot dog/mule thing that they keep kicking and it gets back up and keeps going.
Segment.io seems like the type of challenge that would be right in Erlang's sweet spot. The talk that Whatsapp gave on scaling Erlang is a good proof point that it's built to handle these systems quite well.
> But here… there be dragons.
That's one of the things Erlang solves pretty well. Sometimes I sort of envision it as that robot dog/mule thing that they keep kicking and it gets back up and keeps going.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNZPRsrwumQ if you have never seen it before.