Using Erlang, how should I distribute load amongst a cluster?

Question

I was looking at the slave/pool modules and it seems similar to what I want, but it also seems like I have a single point of failure in my application (if the master node goes d

Answer 1

I recently remembered the pg module which allows you to setup process groups. messages sent to the group go to every process in the group. It might get you part way toward what you want. you would have to write the code to decide which process handles the request for real but you would get a pool without a master using it.