* The entire model of state with Genservers

* Pattern matching made my code unreadable

* Libraries that I needed had Erlang documentation

I created some pretty gnarly code when pattern matching authorization cookies for some Plug middleware I made. Plus I had to dive into some Cowboy stuff, which had really awful documentation at the time.

"Just use Phoenix!" is what most people will say. But I simply don't want to use a big framework for a straightforward server.

Again, I realize that Elixir is probably really good at what I need it for. For instance, my latest project is a collection of Go binaries that all run at once and process data back and forth. This can likely modeled as processes under a supervision tree in Elixir as multiple Genservers... but Jesus. That's so much harder for me to think about.

What if I want to scale a specific worker up/down? With a Golang binary I can just... launch more containers with the binary. Elixir on the other hand has its own orchestrator of sorts with BEAM. So what do I do here? I guess I need to launch more Elixir servers with my code and then configure something so that it launches more processes of a certain kind within my fleet, but I have 0 effing clue how.

Edit: going through the docs, I just remembered another thing: most of the things I design are dependent on a store of some kind, whether its Redis or Postgres, or any other store. That can be confusing when the Elixir docs have a focus on its own state solutions, like GenServer or ETS.