johnhamelink

johnhamelink

Making elixir auto-discover nodes from inside AWS

Hey there,

I thought I’d share this article I just wrote after figuring out how to get an Elixir app to connect to other Elixir nodes in a LAN, and specifically how to feed in what nodes exist from AWS.

https://johnhamelink.com/2016/03/03/elixir-and-ec2

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AstonJ

AstonJ

Nice guide John, and have to say I love the look n feel of https://findaplayer.com - and what a great idea for an app :023:

What do you use on the app side? Swift etc?

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johnhamelink

johnhamelink

Thanks @AstonJ! Appside, we’re all native - using ObjC and Java.

If you’ve got any other questions about our stack, happy to answer!

JH

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