Erlang/Elixir and Kubernetes are, IMHO, the best platform to write distributed applications:

- who needs microservices when you have the OTP framework and gen_servers? - "let it crash" philosophy: supervisors will restart your processes automatically - design fault tolerant systems at the application level with supervisors and OTP applications - design fault tolerant systems at the infrastructure level with Kubernetes - bring the two together with Horde and libcluster - store in-memory distributed state with Mnesia (who needs Redis?) - Phoenix and Ecto for the web stuff