BEAM is a battle-tested, decades-old technology that most likely runs a critical part of your telephone network. You're pretending that K8s, the newcomer, is already the incumbent. Are you sure you've done a proper assessment?
The critical parts are run in C not Erlang. You think Erlang is fast enough to route packets? btw routing packets and running a backend are two different things.
It doesn't make BEAM pointless, but fault-tolerance and scalability (two of the core features of Elixir/BEAM) are also handled by k8s. If you use Elixir/BEAM for these features and deploy on k8s, it may seem redundant to use them both together. Maybe that's what parent is referring to.
Not sure what you mean. Kubernetes is a containerisation and orchestration platform BEAM is a VM for Erlang. How would they be comparable? Or is this a different BEAM?
