> do you really want your server and your background jobs to share the same memory and resources Erlang/Elixir processes don't share memory (Actor model) like

> do you really want your server and your background jobs to share the same memory and resources Erlang/Elixir processes don't share memory (Actor model) like Java threads do, giving it a distinct advantage (see Akka for Actor model in Java). But yeah, for heavy stuff even in Elixir, you might want to outsource that to a Job server (which there are many libraries in Elixir for this).