This is exactly what whatsapp experienced, but with more recent OTP versions I would have assumed that those went away and the main problem once you reach 'scal

This is exactly what whatsapp experienced, but with more recent OTP versions I would have assumed that those went away and the main problem once you reach 'scale' is that the distributed erlang network topology gets saturated. I'm curious what difficulties you ran into? edit: nevermind I saw your other post, but confirms what I expected.