Comment by jefc1111

My answers to the two questions in the post title: "Yes" and "Read Concurrent Data Processing in Elixir [1]"

I have dealt with concurrency in PHP (good times with Laravel Horizon) in a couple of different ways and in NodeJS (never feels good, to me). The BEAM has some great primitives for concurrency and the book mentioned above walks the reader through them at a good pace. I read it cover to cover and it really enriched my mental model of how to use concurrency and async.

[1] https://pragprog.com/titles/sgdpelixir/concurrent-data-proce...