[erlang-questions] can nodes fail/recover too fast to be seen?

[Jonathan Leivent]

On 07/05/2013 04:31 PM, Per Hedeland wrote:
> Jonathan Leivent <jleivent@REDACTED> wrote:
>>
>> OK - so it is TCP that saves the day.  I'm not sure I want to be that
>> dependent on TCP, though.
>
> I'm not sure how to interpret that statement. If you mean
>
> - "I want to be able to use something other than TCP" - fine, as long as
> it provides the same guarantees, and you can figure out how to hook it
> into the Erlang distribution.

I might want to use UDP in the future.  Or, something that is just 
slightly more than UDP - such as providing traffic control, but not 
reliability.  My app is supposed to be able to handle 
lost/duplicate/unordered messages on is own - so much of what TCP 
provides is redundant.