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== Fault-tolerance == Fault-tolerance is a key feature of the Elixir programming language. Elixir provides built-in mechanisms and abstractions that allow developers to write reliable and fault-tolerant systems. This capability comes from the concurrency model, error handling system, and supervisor hierarchy provided by the language. === Concurrency Model === Elixir is built on top of the Erlang Virtual Machine (BEAM), which was specifically designed for building fault-tolerant systems. The BEAM VM provides lightweight processes, also known as actors, that communicate with each other by exchanging messages. These processes isolate failures, ensuring that an error in one process does not affect the others. === Error Handling === In Elixir, errors and exceptions are treated as values that can be propagated and handled gracefully. The language encourages the use of explicit error handling mechanisms, such as `try` and `rescue`, to recover from errors or gracefully handle exceptional situations. This approach allows developers to design fault-tolerant systems that can recover from failures and continue running without crashing. === Supervisor Hierarchy === One of the cornerstone features of fault-tolerance in Elixir is the concept of supervision. A supervisor is a process that monitors and controls the lifecycle of other processes, known as workers. Elixir provides a robust supervisor hierarchy, where supervisors can monitor and supervise other supervisors, creating a tree-like structure. Whenever a worker process fails, the supervisor is notified and can take appropriate actions, such as restarting the worker, terminating it, or initiating a different recovery strategy. This hierarchical supervision structure allows for the automatic restart of failed processes, making the system resilient to faults and errors. === Designing Fault-Tolerant Systems === To make the most of Elixir's fault-tolerant features, it is important to adopt certain design principles. Some of these principles include: * Defining clear boundaries between processes to minimize the impact of failures. * Isolating critical components within separate supervised processes. * Using supervisors to automatically handle failures and restart processes. * Designing recovery strategies for different failure scenarios. * Employing restart strategies such as "one for one" or "one for all" based on the system requirements. By following these principles, developers can build robust and fault-tolerant systems in Elixir that are resilient to failures and provide high availability. === See Also === * [[Process Management in Elixir]] * [[Fault-Tolerant Supervision Trees]] * [[Error Handling in Elixir]] * [[Concurrency in Elixir]]
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