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Supervisors & Gen Servers in Elixir

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Beginner. No background in the topic needed.

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Programming languagesSystems programmingElixir and ErlangConcurrency and parallelism

An introduction to how supervisors manage processes like GenServers in Elixir to build fault-tolerant applications.

Episode 10 - Supervisors in Elixir are simply processes that manage other processes (such as Gen Servers). Their main three tasks are to start, restart and terminate child processes. Github: github.com/mrdougwright/elixir-drops/tree/master/episode_10

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What people say. Recommended as a helpful tutorial for Elixir beginners to understand supervisors and GenServers.

u/KMarcioin r/elixir • Recommends

On “I apologize. I know I'm out of my depth... but I am excited”

* *"There's a lot of resources for web, apps, etc let me know if theres other tutorials that you've enjoyed for a elixir novice even if it doesnt pertain to the above project..":* Check this video & channel: [video Understanding Supervisors & Genservers (OTP) is essential since it's one of the language's core design purposes. https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/design\_principles.html
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u/Bwuakin r/elixir • Recommends

On “how to make start a module and keep it running in pheonix elixir”

genservers are recursive, they just abstract that. You know you got a phoenix supervisor tree that start processes right? You would add your genserver to supervisor tree. [video The elixir community tend to like books, I recommend elixir in action, programming phoenix.
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