How I use Erlang Hot Code Updates

One of the Erlang ecosystem&rsquo;s spiciest nerd snipes are hot code updates. Because it can do it. In ways that almost no other runtime can. I use Elixir which builds on Erlang and has the same capabilities. The standard way of doing Elixir releases via mix release does not support Erlang hot code updates. As in, it will not generate the necessary files for you. And if you do want to do it there…