Programming Phoenix 1.4

Concurrent

Over the last decade, we have been hearing more and more about concurrency. If you have never used a language with first-class concurrency support before, you may be wondering what all the fuss is about. In this section, we will cover why concurrency matters in the context of web applications and how Phoenix developers leverage it to build fast, performant applications. First let’s talk about the different types of concurrency.

Types of Concurrency

For our purposes, let’s think of concurrency as a web application’s ability to process two or more web requests at the same time. The simplest way to handle multiple requests is by executing them one right after the other, but that strategy isn’t very efficient. To process a request, most ...