I always feel the need to push back on this :). First, i wouldn’t say the container practices are tied to traditional web application model. Containers (in an early form) started the move to that model.
I don’t see Elixir/Erlang/OTP as a disruptive technology, particularly in this area. Erlang distribution is instead pushing old ways against “better” (obviously depends on your environment, but certainly better in the case of running in the cloud) models.
I cringe when Erlang and mnesia are hyped this way. It leads to people being disappointed when they discover this stuff was cutting edge distribution in the 90s under a very different type of setup.
Obviously I think there are advantages in specific cases to stateful applications and that Erlang’s concurrency, fault tolerant design and easy control plain distribution is beneficial to building such solutions – otherwise I wouldn’t work on Erleans – but I’ve also seen the hype and eventual crash before.
