An Elixir View on Processes: (...) to Cluster Discovery
summary
Anayeli Malvaez presents Elixir process fundamentals, starting from spawn-based concurrency and covering process registration, messaging, supervision, and fault-tolerance patterns. The talk progresses to distributed concerns such as node discovery and clustering techniques for Elixir/Erlang systems, showing how these primitives enable building resilient, discoverable clusters.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:05Introduction
- 3:42Erlang philosophy errors
- 5:29Erlang and Elixir processes
- 7:37Process lifecycle & communication
- 11:30Demo: Ping Pong process
- 15:24Elixir community evolution
- 16:28Robust Elixir abstractions
- 18:17Phoenix LiveView
- 18:58Demo: 2048 game
- 22:30Controlled failures & resilience
- 22:51Phoenix performance & scalability
- 24:00Microservice cluster challenges
- 25:27Cluster solutions: history & practice
- 26:51Distributed systems tools
- 27:35Final thoughts
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