I've been going through something very similar myself: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5278873/erlang-otp-application-design http://stackoverflow.com/questio

I've been going through something very similar myself: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5278873/erlang-otp-application-design http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5278873/erlang-otp-applic... It's not like I am a noob, either, I have a ton of experience programming and I have used functional languages before (my first university language was gofer, an implementation of haskell). I've attempted Erlang in anger twice now and have ended up terribly frustrated1. I am currently working on a node.js spike - experimenting with zerommq and node.js to see if I can get something acceptable working robustly.