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kill the work when the parent GenServer exits
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Suppose I have the following function:
def foo, do: IO.puts "Foobar"
I want to run it a minute after some work done in my function:
de...
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I’m trying to name a supervised, permanent task so I can find it easier. What’s the best way to go about this? I tried out this right her...
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situation:
I have a list of posts, each post is associated with many comments,
I want to process each post in an Oban worker where for ...
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Hi there,
I have a phoenix controller from which I spawn a Task with Task.Supervisor.start_child for some async processing.
I’d like to...
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I’m curious why when I use the Enum.map/2 function, parallelizing it with a Task doesn’t make it run faster, but rather makes it run slow...
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Inside the aliases in mix file. If we define migration command like this:
defp aliases do
[
"ecto.migrate": [
"ecto.migrate da...
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I have a list of events coming from an event bus let’s assume the form like this:
%ProcucerEvents{
id: 1,
events: [
%Event{id: ...
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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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I have a two part question concerning a module like so:
defmodule AsyncAwait do
defp long_running_task(id) do
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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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hey! I am new t...
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I have been playing with a pmap (parallel map) implementation, for a task that seems easy: to run a series of functions in parall...
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In looking do a simple, but potentially slow task after the response has been delivered to the end user, I am looking for some lifecycle ...
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How to make Task.async_stream return results as they are ready?
I have the following code:
defmodule Demo do
def run do
child =
...
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As many of you may have realized by now (sorry for all the posts here) I’ve been working on a db problem where I’m trying to aggregate a ...
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I have written a blog post about a common misunderstanding about tasks
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I am working on a simple introduction talk to OTP. One of the things I myself am wondering about, however, is when Agent is useful and wh...
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I am kicking off a large number of GenServer calls to actors, each within an async Task.
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Been reading the Hex docs but it’s still not very clear to me.
I can see this
Task.yield/2 is an alternative to await/2 where the call...
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Im wondering if anyone have a good example or could help me understand how should I test an async task.
The closer I found was...
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The more I read about Elixir’s and Erlang’s actor-model-based functionality, the more I am in love.
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I have a simple module that, when invoked, lists all records in a table.
defmodule App.Adapter do
alias App.Repo
def list_all(model...
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I want to handle the following exit example ( String.to_integer(input) is jus an example and can be replaced with raise). This happe...
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I’ve read on GenServer, but am not able yet to use it because not everything yet makes sense to me.
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I have been reading Elixir in Action and I have noticed that in an example, the author decides to forgo Tasks and use pools.
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I’m trying to convert a directory of Markdown files into HTML, and I’m trying to do it concurrently with Task.async_stream. Here is the c...
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