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DynamicSupervisor traps exit signals and handles ones coming from its children:
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/427d21e410d18...
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Tonight we had an incident in production when a somewhat important GenServer process seemingly disappeared and had not been r...
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I have fairly complicated Phoenix app (but it doubt that this is Phoenix related issue?). In it I have the MyApp.Application module w...
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I worked on a project with some legacy code that existed before Oban’s arrival. This leg...
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So, I have a set of child processes under my start/2 callback, as you do:
@impl true
def start(_type, _args) do
children = [
...
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I have a DynamicSupervisor that spawns multiple workers and provides them with a configuration. I want to be able to update this configur...
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I have a supervision tree, where Application starts -> DynamicSupervisor -> Supervisor -> GenServer (worker).
Once the ...
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Since OTP 25.1 we have a process groups monitoring so I finally made an implementation of distributed Registry leveraging :pg and an [alm...
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I try to make new supervisor for developer can easy to add & manage processes.
For current supervisors, that is based on OTP & s...
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I have something like below in my application.ex
children = [
{Goth, name: MyApp.Goth},
MyApp.SomeService,
MyApp.Endpoint
]
opts ...
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Hello,
How is everyone?
I hope you’re well =)
I worked on a project with some legacy code that existed before Oban’s arrival. This leg...
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Greetings!
Tonight we had an incident in production when a somewhat important GenServer process seemingly disappeared and had not been r...
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Hi
I have fairly complicated Phoenix app (but it doubt that this is Phoenix related issue?). In it I have the MyApp.Application module w...
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DynamicSupervisor traps exit signals and handles ones coming from its children:
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/427d21e410d18...
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I need to:
do some asynchronous work concurrently
kill the work when the parent GenServer exits
be able to specify the timeout
do some ...
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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 ran into a situation recently where it would be very useful to start up a DynamicSupervisor in an application’s sup tree, always with a...
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Hi! Does anyone have any recommendation on how to debug my application seemingly completely randomly shutting down? The only diagnostic...
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Pogo is a distributed supervisor for clustered Elixir applications.
It uses battle-tested distributed named process groups (:pg) under t...
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I want to share a Finch app among Umbrella apps.
In foo_app:
def start(_type, _args) do
children = [
{Finch, name: MyAppSe...
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Can you please provide an example of how and when is a module-based supervisor preferred (over starting a Supervisor via start_link/2)?
...
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I am trying to figure out if there’s an established best practice for connecting child processes within the same supervisor without using...
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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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I realize there are multiple topics with the same title, but the questions and answers in those threads either don’t make sense to me or ...
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Hello everyone,
I am fairly new to Elixir and so far I’ve had a blast.
As part of an academic assignment I’ve been tasked with implemen...
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Hi everyone,
I implemented the example from this blog RPC over RabbitMQ (with Elixir) – Andrea Leopardi.
My dev environment:
Elixir 1....
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I have a process, using gen_statem, which was crashing (and being restarted by a supervisor) because of an unhandled exception.
When I f...
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Hey there,
I am building a system that:
streams data from an external HTTP API endpoint for multiple topics
starts streaming processes...
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I am extending an existing application to allow users to be able to write and send newsletters and struggling with determining a proper s...
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The module under test depends on three OTP process and thus they’re started in test setup callback:
setup do
accounts = Test...
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I need help with seem to be a trivial task. My application root is Supervisor and it starts couple of GenServer based workers. I am tryin...
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I have an app like
stackdelivery
├── lib
└── stackdelivery
└── application.ex
└── stackg...
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In our app, we have to start dynamic amount of workers and we can’t just define them as a part of supervision tree in the applica...
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I have an app that must never go down, under any circumstances. This app has a supervisor that has a ton of workers. These wor...
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I read Supervisor.Spec – Elixir v1.4.2 multiple times, but I still don’t understand what’s different between a worker and a supervis...
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I have an application with the following setup:
There is a central supervisor which is initialized with a child spec at startup encompa...
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I’m having trouble getting Supervisor.start_child to work and I get the following error when running these commands (the supervisor is st...
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I want to start a module (MyApp.MyAgent) using Agent that will fetch some data from DB (and thus use MyApp.Repo) and keep it in m...
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I am reading the “Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP and Phoenix” book, and I finished a Supervisor that supervises G...
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I have a GenServer that manages a varying set of interval timers.
By default, when you start it - the list is empty; and you add timers ...
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Hi! I’ve been diving deeper into Elixir recently and reading through some of the guides and docs about Processes and Supervisors. After r...
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I’m trying to use worker in my Phoenix application but I’m getting the error: undefined function worker/2. I get this error when I up ph...
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I am trying to take an input from the user and then creating the number of genservers as input and Supervise them. My code is something l...
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