Supervisors
Most new Elixir developers tend to think of supervisors in terms of fault tolerance because they provide the restart strategies that are the essential part of building reliable systems. Supervisors are so much more. They form the backbone of Elixir applications.
Ultimately, supervisors are responsible for how our processes start and shut down, whether an application is crashing and restarting or simply starting. Restarting of processes is optional, while starting and stopping them is essential. Let’s explore startup flow by addressing a bug in our PathAllocator implementation defined in Use GenServer as a Coordinator.
Starting a supervisor is a matter of defining all of its child specifications and then calling start_link. A child ...
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