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Re:We Built a Self-Healing System to Survive a Concurrency B... by girishso on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @02:53AM (#42123791)
Not much familiar with Elixir OTP, but isn’t the approach OP took similar to Let It Crash philosophy of OTP?
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Re:We Built a Self-Healing System to Survive a Concurrency B... by ramchip on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @06:59AM (#42125283)
Not really, you wouldn't normally kill or restart processes randomly in an OTP system. "Let it crash" is more about separating error handling from business logic.
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