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		darkmarmot 87 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Leveraging Elixir's hot code loading capabilities ... We run a large distributed cluster (currently 4 DCs spanning the US) and use hot code reload for live patches when needed and rolling deployments for our standard releases.

chantepierre 86 days ago [–]

To add to this topic, people who do not know about erlang's hot code loading should watch this talk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ0CvjAJXz4

A multi-DC running cluster where parts are progressively swapped at runtime. No database, only OTP.

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