Elixir is great for stateless apps. So are a bunch of other platforms. Elixir is exceptional at stateful apps. And it is true, many of those things are now han

Elixir is great for stateless apps. So are a bunch of other platforms. Elixir is exceptional at stateful apps. And it is true, many of those things are now handled through K8S. However, K8S doesn't handle everything and requires a lot more ceremony and infrastructure than what you can get within the Elixir/Erlang ecosystem. I think there might be a way to work with Elixir + K8S in a way specific to the domain you are working with. Not everyone needs to be able to hot-reload code without dropping live connections, but if if you do, and you want to deploy on K8S, then you can try writing a K8S operator that encapsulates that idea. However: https://gravitational.com/blog/running-postgresql-on-kubernetes/ https://gravitational.com/blog/running-postgresql-on-kuberne... (which is more about how every distributed system requires deep domain knowledge, not just specifically about PostgreSQL) I have not deployed Elixir on GCP. I have deployed other things though, and I can tell you the private networking is much better set up than AWS. As far as distributing nodes, you can do that with any of the cloud providers.