alt Hacker NewsThanks, interestingly Elixir handles concurrency in what seems like a natural way, actors passing messages to each other. It's cool that this way is used in production, though it seems to be used mainly in niche distributed scaling.
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nesarkvechnep • today at 5:55 AM
Not at all. It’s used to build standard web applications too.
What people are finding now when building agenic AI orchestrators is that they are reinventing some of the ideas behind BEAM and OTP. The big one being queues (mailboxes), but also fault isolation.
Async runtimes can’t really do preemptive scheduling so those end up using other methods that, while getting low latency, may not improve reliability or reduce variance in latency.
Orchestrating tasks across a number of different services that are not in your control becomes a distributed system where not everything is reliable.