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Re:Elixir vs. Erlang: a question of momentum by drieddust on Thursday April 23, 2015 @05:21PM (#9429905)
6) Potential 99.999999999% uptime reliability (thanks to Erlang's OTP)

I don't have much understanding of programming language internals but why we don't thing see low level stuff like distributed file system written in Erlang.

I genuinely interested in knowing why this is not tried by someone?

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Re:Elixir vs. Erlang: a question of momentum by TylerE on Thursday April 23, 2015 @05:40PM (#9430052)
Every phone call you've made in the last 10 years+ probably touched an erlang node at some point. That's pretty distributed.

If your're looking for more traditional server stuff, there's RabbitMQ.

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Re:Elixir vs. Erlang: a question of momentum by KirinDave on Thursday April 23, 2015 @07:56PM (#9430673)
Actually quite a few systems have been! Besdies telco stuff, Facebook used it quite a bit and I'm told it was in LinkedIn's stack as well.

I get a lot of recruiting interest from my time at Powerset as an erlang engineer, from the most surprising places. Game companies come up a lot.

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