Hello,

Does it make sense to create a BEAM multi-node architecture if I plan to use it in one machine only?

To elaborate a bit more… In my system a have a complex and big supervisor tree with lots of processes etc. and I need to recreate this entire tree for each external source I support.

This means that if I call my sup tree SupA, and I support sources Source1, Source2 and Source3, I will have to duplicate SupA 3 times, one for each source.

Currently, I already have that implemented, I send the source name when creating the tree so I would get a unique name for each one (and for all processes and supervisors inside SupA too).

So, for example, for Source1, I have SupA.Source1 something like that.

Making all the processes and supervisors have a unique name and keep track of that to call the right one is kind of a pain (I do use Registry in some places to make it a little bit nicer) so I was thinking if I could instead of running everything in a single node, create a node for each one of the sources with its own BEAM.

Does this make sense? What are the pros and cons of such an approach? Is it even a good idea?

If it is, how can I handle the node initialization? Should I just create a script that starts each node for me with the correct parameters or there is something nicer that handles that for me?

Thanks!