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May 21, 2021

Distributed Systems for the UnInitiated

I’m not going to lie — I am drawn to Distributed Systems in a way that few other areas of Computer Science do. Language Theory, Type Systems etc. while are fun just don’t have the allure in my mind that Distributed Systems have. So what are Distributed Systems? The Definition…

Distributed Systems

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Distributed Systems for the UnInitiated
Distributed Systems for the UnInitiated

May 17, 2021

Erlang (and Elixir) Process Primitives

Elixir, Erlang and other BEAM languages give you the power of full parallelism. The core primitive that enables all of this to happen is the spawn BIF (built-in function) provided by OTP. For example, if you run: parent = self :io.format("parent pid ~p~n", [parent]) child_pid = spawn(fn -> :io.format("child…

Elixir

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Erlang (and Elixir) Process Primitives
Erlang (and Elixir) Process Primitives
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