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Real-Time Phoenix
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Real-Time Phoenix

by Stephen Bussey
March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
7h 58m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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WebSockets and Phoenix Channels

WebSockets map very well to the Erlang/OTP actor model and are leveraged by one of the stars of Phoenix: Channels. WebSockets are the primary communication layer for Channels. This provides Channels with a solid foundation on which to build real-time applications. We’ll be using Phoenix Channels with WebSockets throughout this book.

Maybe you’re worried that WebSockets will cause high resource usage in your application. Don’t worry! Phoenix and Elixir make it easy to have tens of thousands of connections on a single server. Each connected Channel and WebSocket in your application has independent memory management and garbage collection because of OTP processes. An advantage of this process-based architecture ...

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