I used a service years ago that did effectively this. PiCloud were sadly absorbed into Dropbox but before that they had exactly this model of fanning out tasks

I used a service years ago that did effectively this. PiCloud were sadly absorbed into Dropbox but before that they had exactly this model of fanning out tasks to workers transparently. They would effectively bundle your code and execute it on a worker. There’s an example here. You’ll see it’s exactly the same model. https://github.com/picloud/basic-examples/blob/master/examples/calculating-pi/correct.py https://github.com/picloud/basic-examples/blob/master/exampl... I’ve not worked with Elixer but I used Erlang a couple of decades back and it appears BEAM hasn’t changed much (fundamentally). My suspicion is that it’s much better suited for this work since it’s a core part of the design. Still, not a totally free lunch because presumably there a chance the primary process crashes while waiting?