meh. we shipped an interactive ETL tool to a bunch of government customers and it relies heavily on the channel abstraction and pubsub provided by phoenix and elixir. maybe it's because message passing is the programming model all the way down the stack and all the way across the cluster, but long lived stateful connections are just not hard to deal with.
elixir has (plenty of) its own drawbacks, but wrangling a pile of topics over a websocket is not one of them. this can be a solved problem if you make some tradeoffs.
this system isn't huge, but has been running for years for plenty of customers irl.
elixir has (plenty of) its own drawbacks, but wrangling a pile of topics over a websocket is not one of them. this can be a solved problem if you make some tradeoffs.
this system isn't huge, but has been running for years for plenty of customers irl.