[Ankhers]

> I do wonder if maybe streaming large data chunks over Erlang distribution might be a problem and a secondary data channel (e.g. over udp or sctp) might be worth playing with.

You may want to take a look at the partisan[0] library written in Erlang. It is basically that, a reimagination of distributed Erlang, except that it can be multiplexed over multiple connections.

[0] - https://github.com/lasp-lang/partisan/

[throwawaymaths]

Yeah but partisan gives you a "ton of stuff you might not need" plus the point is to treat distribution as a control plane and separate concerns from the data plane. There used to be things to worry about using Erlang distribution in general -- irrespective of backend, iirc, like HOL blocking (I think those are resolved now).