Listen "About Fun With GenServers"
Episode Synopsis
GenServers are fun! Andreas gives all the context. Things were learned, knowledge was aquired. You can do so much with GenServers, but make sure you have a good reason.If you don't watch out, this is where concurrency goes to die.Dynamic supervisors, and their children, are thoroughly considered.Also delved into is the mess other ecosystems make of doing things at the same time, waiting, and so on.The strange worlds of C and other unusual languages are considered.Finally, an interesting bug.LinksAlan TuringTuring machineGenServerCowboyPlugUmbrellaETS - Erlang Term StorageØredevThe actor modelVirding's first rule of programmingRegistryDynamicSupervisorThe Goth library - Google auth library for ElixirThe GIL - the global interpreter lockFriday afternoon deployPromisesEsbuildUiua - "A stack-based array programming language"Prefix treePackmatic library, by Evadne Wu - streaming zip archivesQuotesWhere the system grows horizontallyThe kind of thing that starts happening when you hire developersIt was missing a hatI have become nothing, the simplifier of thingsWhere all the concurrency goes to dieA whole dance party of sad, dark peopleThe children of the dynamic supervisorHomes can be nodesHundreds of interested partiesTurns life into promisesPoking some C programmers
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