The fault tolerance allow you to have processes and state to be available reliably for longer than the duration of a HTTP request. You can have continuously ru

The fault tolerance allow you to have processes and state to be available reliably for longer than the duration of a HTTP request. You can have continuously running processes without relying on something outside of the language. You can more easily distribute such code as an Elixir package. The code can work without relying on e.g. cron or redis being available and configured.