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Elixir London June 2016 w/ José Valim

Elixir London

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  • Presented by José Valim, creator of Elixir

Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Programming languagesDistributed systemsElixir and ErlangConcurrency and parallelismKafka and stream processing

José Valim introduces GenStage, a specification for exchanging events between Elixir processes with backpressure.

José Valim talks about gen_stage at the Elixir London meetup, June 2016.

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What people say. Recommended as a foundational talk on GenStage and backpressure in Elixir.

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Elixir London June 2016 w/ José Valim

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On “GenStage issue: all consumers are getting events, despite use of DemandDispatcher”

Slack probably will get more traction. Plus my understanding is that the load from the producer is spread across the consumer by demand(how much they can handle). Think it as "load balance" but instead of push it's a pull. Check out the chart @7:42 of this video: link to this video