Concurrency Best Practices in Elixir
Concurrency Best Practices in Elixir[edit]
Concurrency in Elixir allows for efficient utilization of modern hardware, maximizing performance and scalability of Elixir applications. This article presents a set of best practices to follow when dealing with concurrency in Elixir.
Isolate mutable state[edit]
Use message passing[edit]
Design for fault tolerance[edit]
Avoid blocking operations[edit]
Utilize parallelism[edit]
Handle backpressure[edit]
Implement supervision trees[edit]
Monitor and handle process terminations[edit]
Utilize OTP behaviors[edit]
Use GenStage for demand-driven stream processing[edit]
Use Task for lightweight asynchronous operations[edit]
Leverage GenServer for stateful server processes[edit]
Conclusion[edit]
By following these best practices, Elixir developers can harness the power of concurrency and build robust, scalable applications. With Elixir's built-in concurrency primitives and the wealth of OTP behaviors, developers have the tools to create performant and fault-tolerant systems.