What Erlang Taught Me About Distributed SystemsLearning Erlang, and the OTP framework in particular, has given me a better understanding of distributed systems and their fundamental building blocks. Before this, my experience with distributed systems was solely in the realm of Kubernetes, which we use at work for deploying scalable, distributed web services. I was introduced to Erlang through Elixir. The Phoenix framework leverages Elixir to b
