Ahh great. “On Erlang, State and Crashes” is exactly answering my question.
As for disks - in good old times when servers were pets, not cattle that was a good idea. But now when the servers are as ephemeral as actors, we need to approach it differently, hence my original question.
Sidenote - i have a strange relationship with Erlang. I first learned it in 2006, liked the idea and was hoping it will eat the world as scale increases. I even contacted Joe Armstrong in hope to translate his thesis. Zero Erlang books in the world at the time. Then i did some load tests using Tsung in 2012.
Then i used akka.net in 2018. But till this day i never had a chance to properly use in production.
As for disks - in good old times when servers were pets, not cattle that was a good idea. But now when the servers are as ephemeral as actors, we need to approach it differently, hence my original question.
Sidenote - i have a strange relationship with Erlang. I first learned it in 2006, liked the idea and was hoping it will eat the world as scale increases. I even contacted Joe Armstrong in hope to translate his thesis. Zero Erlang books in the world at the time. Then i did some load tests using Tsung in 2012. Then i used akka.net in 2018. But till this day i never had a chance to properly use in production.