title: Distributed Erlang and riak-core: how does the mesh scale for large clusters?
body: <p>Using distributed Erlang creates a mesh network between all the nodes, and that doesn't scale well to hundreds of nodes. How does riak-core deal with that? </p>
  
  <p>Does it not use distributed Erlang (set -connect_all=false and use custom protocol for communication between riak nodes)? From a cursory look at the code, it doesn't seem like they are doing that.</p>