In large Erlang applications, the "send to multiple peers" broadcast tendencies of its message passing can indeed cause the network to become a bottleneck; so c

In large Erlang applications, the "send to multiple peers" broadcast tendencies of its message passing can indeed cause the network to become a bottleneck; so can the default chattiness that a lot of Erlang application developers assume for their app behavior. Fortunately, there are lots of simple-to-apply patterns and solutions when you get to that point, for example the excellent Partisan library: https://github.com/lasp-lang/partisan https://github.com/lasp-lang/partisan