It does not sound too incredible to me. Erlang and BEAM was designed to handle Ericson's telephony services. Piping-lots-of-stuff-in-parallel in fault tolerant

It does not sound too incredible to me. Erlang and BEAM was designed to handle Ericson's telephony services. Piping-lots-of-stuff-in-parallel in fault tolerant fashion is the main use case around which it was designed. Of course this is anecdotal.