Hey fellow devs,

This is my first post in this awesome community, and I’m excited to share my project with you all. As a newbie, I’d love to get your feedback on my design.

Here’s the context: I have an umbrella project with two apps. The first app is a gateway that receives a high volume of messages from Meta’s WhatsApp Cloud API. These messages are destined for different business account numbers (in Meta’s jargon). To simplify, imagine receiving messages like {"1800555", "message 1 from whatsapp consumer"}, {"18007777", "message 2 from another whatsapp consumer"}, and so on.

The second app is a bot that processes these messages. Now, here’s how my architecture works: the gateway (a Plug endpoint) is a node called gateway_node@127.0.0.1. When a message arrives, it reads from Mnesia, which has a map of business accounts to destination nodes. The destination node is a copy of the bot app (app 2), which can be something like customer_services_node@127.0.0.1 or another_company@127.0.0.1.

The advantage of this setup is that I can add nodes (business accounts) on demand without affecting the others.

So, what do you think? Is this approach too newbie-ish? Any recommendations?

Thanks in advance!