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Jan 28, 2019

Orchestrating GenServer state changes with `handle_continue`

A minor addition to Erlang/OTP 21 that could make life a little easier For the past few years, I’ve been heavily leveraging GenServer behaviours that advance themselves across various internal states using a pattern of send/2 and handle_info/2 callbacks. Why? Because I’ve found this approach makes it really easy to…

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Orchestrating GenServer state changes with `handle_continue`

Elixir

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Jan 24, 2017

Elixir GenServer call vs cast

GenServer.call is not just for returning a response I have been working on a side project using Elixir with a friend who is new to the language. He has some functional programming experience, but none using the Erlang/Elixir actor model. It was tricky at times to explain the fact that…

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·Jan 9, 2017

Using the Registry in Elixir 1.4

One of the new additions in Elixir 1.4 that I’ve been looking forward to is the new Registry module. Let’s look at one way to take advantage of this handy feature that is now part of the core library. Github Example - https://github.com/amokan/registry_sample If you are new to Elixir and…

Elixir

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Elixir

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Sep 28, 2016

GenStage: My Alternative To Certain Parallel Stages

UPDATE (2016–09–29): The following approach should not be used due to the fact that it will cause more demand to be triggered while your work is being done asynchronously. A DynamicSupervisor can be used to limit concurrency and act as a GenStage consumer. See the detailed response from José Valim. …

Programming

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Programming

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