When do you need event management

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I have 2 GenServers, (there is no backpressure)

I would describe 2 main methods, from first GenServer (Recording.WorkerStarter).

  def handle_info(:request, state) do
    schedule_fetch_call(state.sleep)
    ping_time_state = Map.put(state, :running, %{datetime: DateTime.utc_now(), worker: true})

    ConCache.get(:do_camera_request, state.camera.name)
    |> shoot_a_request(ping_time_state, Recording.Worker)

    {:noreply, ping_time_state}
  end

  def shoot_a_request(true, state, worker) do
    ConCache.put(:do_camera_request, state.camera.name, false)
    DynamicSupervisor.start_child(General.Supervisor, {worker, state})
  end

and on the other GenServer (Recording.Worker) there is only one important callback

  def handle_info(:fetch_and_process, state) do
    case FetchMeJpeg.request(state.camera, state.running.datetime) do
      {:failed, _requested_at} ->
        ConCache.put(:do_camera_request, state.camera.name, true)
        {:stop, :shutdown, state}

      {:ok, body, requested_at} ->
        SeaweedMe.post(state.camera.name, body, requested_at)

        BroadcastMe.push(state.camera.name, body, requested_at)

        ConCache.put(:do_camera_request, state.camera.name, true)
        {:stop, :normal, state}
    end
  end

I am running 2 Recording.WorkerStarter which are adding Recording.Worker.

now in Recording.Worker

I have 3 important calls.

  1. FetchMeJpeg.request(state.camera, state.running.datetime)
  2. SeaweedMe.post(state.camera.name, body, requested_at)
  3. BroadcastMe.push(state.camera.name, body, requested_at)

I have seen some use cases where People have done event management and when 1. got succeeded, they bypass the results to 2. and 3. as events.

I am keen to know what is the benefit of this?

the above consecutive calls are working fine without any event passing.

But I am going to increase the number from 2 to 1000 for adding Recording.WorkerStarter.

my question is, switching to events can make performance optimization?

and what are the event management tools are available? GenEvent? gproc? GenStage?