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Long-running mission-critical stuff has been written in Erlang and running on BEAM since decades now.

Indeed, the correct solution here is emqx

they are java shop, learning/supporting new type of infra adds significant overhead.

Yeah but erlang it’s not the current trendy thing, sadly.

(I’m being ironic of course)

And java is???

Irony aside, Elixir definitely feels like a current trendy thing, or at the very least more trendy than Java.