I have to say, this is one of the most exciting technologies I've seen in awhile. It predates docker by a fair bit, and I would have hoped it would have gotten

I have to say, this is one of the most exciting technologies I've seen in awhile. It predates docker by a fair bit, and I would have hoped it would have gotten more traction. So I'm very happy to see slides from a user group. Alas, the brilliance of Erlang has not been sufficiently appreciated, so hopefully Elixir -- aka: Erlang Returns -- might catch on and become a popular hipster language. With Docker you still have all the overhead of Linux, and personally, I'm finding it a bit overwrought, and then on top of that more and more infrastructure is being built. All well intentioned and I'm not saying it's wrong-- but it's starting to feel like open stack. One of the earlier demos of Erlang on Xen was a system where a VM was spawned to handle each requests. EG: An HTTP request would come in, an entire VM would be spawned, handle the request and go away. It was very fast. I find that kinda astounding! http://erlangonxen.org/zerg http://erlangonxen.org/zerg PS- Not intended to start a flame war, the dogmatic sounding parts of this post are all tongue in cheek.