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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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Cluster Your BEAM Nodes Together

You must connect your BEAM nodes together when deploying a real-time application to production. We covered in previous chapters that a WebSocket-based application broadcasts outbound messages to all nodes in the cluster, using PubSub, so that connections on other nodes receive the message for connections that they own. If your nodes can not talk to each other, some messages will be missed and not sent to clients.

There are two ways to implement clustering in your application. The first way, that comes out-of-the-box with OTP, is to connect nodes together with distributed Erlang. This creates a direct peer-to-peer connection between all nodes in the cluster. However, some deployment environments may not be able ...

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