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…

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…

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. …