One of the things that I like about the Erlang/OTP ecosystem is that it encourages you to design systems that are very modular, but does not force you to run ev

One of the things that I like about the Erlang/OTP ecosystem is that it encourages you to design systems that are very modular, but does not force you to run every service as an independent entity. By designing around supervision trees of dependent services, one gains the advantages of a monolithic environment without losing the ability to split services out onto discrete nodes. But that's an "all in" environment. You are Elixir/Erlang/OTP, or you are out. That is, understandably, not an option for many use cases.