Building a Transactional Function Pipeline

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A real-world problem at DNSimple about managing transactions that span beyond a single database to multiple systems is presented. The talk explains challenges of coordinating such complex, cross-system transactions and describes solving them with Test-Driven Development and the Elixir functional language by building a transactional function pipeline.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:37DNS and connectors issue
3. 7:14Need for transactionality
4. 10:05Pipeline development with tests
5. 22:33Side effect testing
6. 25:41Error handling in Elixir
7. 30:14Rollback implementation
8. 35:27Summary

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