Came here to add this. At least based on this paper, I feel better about where things are headed with my choice of using elixir/erlang/OTP as the primary stack

Came here to add this. At least based on this paper, I feel better about where things are headed with my choice of using elixir/erlang/OTP as the primary stack for our web services, for exactly this reason. While we don't have the scale yet to need to cluster out and handle these kinds of issues, I've told my cofounder, that thanks to Elixir, I'm not terribly worried about the costs when does happen (not as worried as I would be if we were using something like ruby)