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2 Unique Use Cases of GenServer.reply | Deep Insights |Elixir Expert

Don’t fear to reply anymore.

Malreddy Ankanna
blackode
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8 min readMay 10, 2021

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In this article, we are talking about two scenarios on how to use reply function in GenServer module explaining with live examples.

The following are the two use cases we are going to cover in this article.

  1. Multi Node Communication via server messages using multi_call
  2. Converting Asynchronous request to Synchronous

What this article isn’t about ?

It don’t talk about GenServers and its usage. I hope you already know about the GenServer and its functions. If not check the following articles to master GenServer.

Article References for better understanding GenServer

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Malreddy Ankanna
blackode

Programmer & Writer, I write about coding, thoughts, ideas, personal musings, technical articles, and tutorials.https://bio.link/blackode