Nice synopsis in the docs. I’d suggest that instead of saying k8s and OTP don’t overlap that it’s more that "they don’t completely overlap" Fenn diagram style. That’d be a bit more nuanced answer and help people judge which category they fall into.

There are many cases where having an Erlang cluster and doing ‘naive pooling’ at the application level would get you 80% of what k8s + routing layer would get you. I’m assuming more of an an all Erlang/Elixir environment which many small startups could get by with. Even then Docker + Fargate or whatnot would still simplify deployment. Personally I harbor a secret desire to see if I could replicate part of the k8s interface using Nerves images + some otp tooling. Probably better things to do with my life though. ;)

Also by ‘heart’ are you referring to how ‘epmd’ works or Erlang distribution?