High availability and available/partition tolerant. These are concerns that are of particular interest when running a set of servers that communicate with each

High availability and available/partition tolerant. These are concerns that are of particular interest when running a set of servers that communicate with each other directly, which is common in Elixir/Erlang due to this being supported by the OTP libraries. The AP comes from CAP theorem, which is better documented on wikipedia than I could give justice to.