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> Very technologically cool, but I'd much rather inject the new functionality into the source code. Swapping in a new process and injecting the new functionali
by distcs 4y ago
> Very technologically cool, but I'd much rather inject the new functionality into the source code.
Swapping in a new process and injecting the new functionality into the source code are not mutually exclusive. You can do both!
Erlang programmers are not idiots who would swap in new processes live without writing the source code for it and testing it. They write the code, the unit tests, the integration tests, deployment, health/readiness checks, and if all that passes then the deployment tools take care of swapping in the new process with zero downtime.