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I’m trying to stablish a long term node process using Port, but the gen server crashs saying
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tl;dr I have a process that passes around a lot of state. Doing this instead of using the process dictionary affects coding design decisi...
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I know beam makes a scheduler per CPU (OS thread); so theoretically I can do something at exactly the same time up to the number of CPUs ...
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Hi , I am pretty new, I tried hard to find the answer on the internet but in vain.
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Can I send messages to (non-genserver) pro...
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I just wanted to share with you guys a series of videos by Isaac Yanemoto, @ityonemo (DNAutics on X), that really expanded my knowledge o...
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I’m currently writing integration tests for a large Phoenix app. The app involves multiple processes communicating with each other....
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I have an Elixir app where a process depends on another process to be alive and send messages back. This second process is mainly...
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Hey folks! :waving_hand:
I think I have an interesting optimization challenge, let me know what you think…
A few months ago, I created ...
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I am trying to understand more about best practices with Elixir and processes. I thought about a GenServer that would maybe sometimes cr...
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I’m starting to build more complex apps and I’m slowly reaching for the built-in Registry module. I’ve been reading GenServer — Elixir v...
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Hi , I am pretty new, I tried hard to find the answer on the internet but in vain.
In short :
Can I send messages to (non-genserver) pro...
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Hello,
I have an Elixir app where a process depends on another process to be alive and send messages back. This second process is mainly...
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Hey,
I’m currently writing integration tests for a large Phoenix app. The app involves multiple processes communicating with each other....
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tl;dr I have a process that passes around a lot of state. Doing this instead of using the process dictionary affects coding design decisi...
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I just wanted to share with you guys a series of videos by Isaac Yanemoto, @ityonemo (DNAutics on X), that really expanded my knowledge o...
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I know beam makes a scheduler per CPU (OS thread); so theoretically I can do something at exactly the same time up to the number of CPUs ...
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I’m using FLAME to run some code that has a tendency to fail (external libraries that are out of my control). When FLAME works, it works ...
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I’m trying to stablish a long term node process using Port, but the gen server crashs saying
erlang.erl:4716: :erlang.open_port({:spawn,...
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Process.resolve/1
What it does
Takes any possible name of the process and returns a pid of the process or port (or nil if none found). Si...
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I’m trying to learn more about use processes to store state (e.g. following this page), and I’m wondering how one might implement a TTL i...
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I am building an app using phoenix which is holding websocket connections with other servers and receiving messages every o...
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What would be the correct approach to inspect the current environment of a Process? For example, if I would have a simple Process defined...
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I like to make use of Process.send_later to send a message to an Agent.
When I understand this tutorial right than one needs to implemen...
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I read about process dictionaries and how they introduce side effects but how are states different from process dictionaries ? Shouldn’t ...
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In a project I had a genserver that holds its local state. This state isnt exceptionally big but part of it was a list of 1000 ids that i...
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I am wondering if it is possible to terminate a supervisor after some time. For regular GenServer job, I can do something like this if I...
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I have a Phoenix LiveView application which is using a fork of WebSockex (branch is here) to listen on a websocket for data incoming and ...
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In the wonderful book „Elixir in Action“, @sasajuric writes that
I/O operations are internally delegated to separate threads, or a ker...
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I have following simple test code to try how to send messages between process.
The way I understand my code is :
I spawn 2 separate pr...
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Hello all,
I want to execute some code 24 hours after a certain function is called.
So I created a GenServer and I’m using Process.send...
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I’m trying to use FastSanitizer in a Mix Task, with the following code :
defmodule Mix.Tasks.HelloTask do
@impl Mix.Task
def r...
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I have an app running GenStage that use a producer stage to buffer/rate-limit work that we manually send to it. However, sometimes we ma...
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Is there any way to install a ‘hook’ in a process that will do something every time a message arrives in the actor? For examp...
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I have a small caching subsystem in my app, which works more or less as following:
I have a collection of objects with attached resourc...
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