Elixir/Erlang and the Cloud Native Ecosystem

[LostKobrakai]

@alchemist_ubi

Why wouldn’t they develop on top of Erlang VM if so?

There was a similar discussion here on the forums, where I tldr’ed the likely reason:

Why isn't Elixir dominating serverless architecture?

I’ve not listened to the podcast, but I see two point in terms of elixir and serverless technology: For orchestration: I guess it’s because of existing knowledge in other languages in teams building those systems. Also the beam doesn’t really have a straight forward story for executing user-code within the vm, so it’s going to need a technology mix anyways. As the executed runtime: The beam is not the best vm to be started up for a single task and stopped right afterwards. I guess the beam ex…