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On “Understanding and loving Elixir in Action but”
I might have a neat idea that I was toying with while thinking of an example:
With inspiration from: link to this video
What a about a simple image processing server that applies different filters (grayscale, blur, etc.) to images that you link to or upload. You could eventually hook this up to a html5 form or whatever for uploading but could also just focus on the processing part for the mean time.
So the goal is that you as a user could upload a number of images in a 'batch' and these would get processed by a few workers. When the work is finished, you could store the result somewhere or could maybe send an email to the user (Mailgun and an elixir mailgun (https://github.com/chrismccord/mailgun)…