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GenServers are fun! Andreas gives all the context. Things were learned, knowledge was aquired. You can do so much with GenServers, but make sure you have a good reason.

If you don't watch out, this is where concurrency goes to die.

Dynamic supervisors, and their children, are thoroughly considered.

Also delved into is the mess other ecosystems make of doing things at the same time, waiting, and so on.

The strange worlds of C and other unusual languages are considered.

Finally, an interesting bug.

Links

Alan Turing
Turing machine
GenServer
Cowboy
Plug
Umbrella
ETS - Erlang Term Storage
Øredev
The actor model
Virding's first rule of programming
Registry
DynamicSupervisor
The Goth library - Google auth library for Elixir
The GIL - the global interpreter lock
Friday afternoon deploy
Promises
Esbuild
Uiua - "A stack-based array programming language"
Prefix tree
Packmatic library, by Evadne Wu - streaming zip archives

Quotes

Where the system grows horizontally
The kind of thing that starts happening when you hire developers
It was missing a hat
I have become nothing, the simplifier of things
Where all the concurrency goes to die
A whole dance party of sad, dark people
The children of the dynamic supervisor
Homes can be nodes
Hundreds of interested parties
Turns life into promises
Poking some C programmers

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