Practical question here. How are Elixir/Erlang apps being deployed nowadays?
My understanding is that BEAM is designed for long running setups where hot reload of the code makes sense, and reboots are not happening that often thanks to the supervision trees.
But practically speaking how does it work under k8s env? When pod is being destroyed, what happens to all the messages sitting there?
Pushing state out of actors is a possibility, but isn’t it ruin the whole idea of stateful actors ?
My understanding is that BEAM is designed for long running setups where hot reload of the code makes sense, and reboots are not happening that often thanks to the supervision trees.
But practically speaking how does it work under k8s env? When pod is being destroyed, what happens to all the messages sitting there? Pushing state out of actors is a possibility, but isn’t it ruin the whole idea of stateful actors ?