ityonemo
I’m doing a 7-part screencast that deep-dives into how Elixir (yup, that’s elixir, not erlang) does processes.
Prerequisites are understanding Elixir syntax, content ranges from beginner to “ready to become and advanced Elixir programmer”.
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eksperimental
Amazing introduction.
I really like the way you explain things.
keep up the good work, looking forward to the next video.
ityonemo
Part two: Tasks
(The last five chapters will be coming in… A bit less rapidly
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ityonemo
Part 3a: Conundrum with Concurrency.
Strategies for sharding global shared state
soyjeansoy
great content btw, really helped me deep dive into processes
McTheels
victorferreira
Amazing series! Can’t wait for the following episodes.
Aetherus
I love it! And I did learn something from the series. Thank you.
RudManusachi
This is awesome! Thank you!
However, I noticed that it’s recommended to run tasks under Task.Supervisor.. But in that case looks like it loses
$callersand Mox fails to define an expectation in the caller’s process and I have to:set_mox_globaland forget about running tests withasync: trueAny suggestion?
ityonemo
Haha you got ahead of me I will address that
my solution is that Elixir Std Lib should support that out of the box (and it would also be nice to have GenServers forward callers via an option too). If you absolutely must have a solution, I wrote this library: https://hexdocs.pm/multiverses/Multiverses.DynamicSupervisor.html
Note that a Task.Supervisor is actually a DynamicSupervisor
ityonemo
Hm. I took a second look at it and Task.Supervisor.start_child should be setting callers correctly:
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/d30c5c0185607f08797441ab8af12636ad8dbd7e/lib/elixir/lib/task/supervisor.ex#L423