About This Book
There are five chapters, each dedicated to a specific module or a library.
In Chapter 1, Easy Concurrency with the Task Module, you’ll get started on the journey of learning how concurrency works in Elixir. It introduces the Task module, processes, timeouts, and other topics that lay the foundation for the following chapters to build upon.
In Chapter 2, Long-Running Processes Using GenServer you’ll learn about GenServer and supervisors. You will see how to create and configure GenServer processes by building a simple job-processing system. We’ll introduce the Supervisor behaviour and talk about how Elixir achieves fault tolerance.
In Chapter 3, Data-Processing Pipelines with GenStage we’ll move on to data-processing pipelines. ...
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