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But Erlang provides something that Kubernetes/Docker/Systemd isolation does not: fine granularity / per request isolated processes. Is the difference between a code bug killing a single call in a VoIP system vs killing an entire OS process with hundreds of them.

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Do you mean actors? I kinda hate how they’re always referred to as processes.

https://github.com/actix/actix https://github.com/akka/akka

The actor terminology isn't used in any official sources since Erlang processes are not quite "actors" in the actor model sense. They were inspired by OS processes.

http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-June/07979...

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