Long-lived Process and State Recovery After Crashes (opens in new tab)

When talking about erlang/elixir, people usually come up with three main associations: lightweight processes, an actor model, and fault tolerance. Erlang made it possible to run hundreds of thousands (with fine—tuning of a virtual machine, millions) of “processes” (what were later called greentreads, and even later goroutines)—almost forty years ago. Joe Armstrong, in his dissertation, half-jokingly characterized language through the catachresis of everything is a process. With the actor mode...