Posts on async

• Feb 5, 2024

  Elixir and Oban: For mission-critical tasks

  When Tasks are mission-critical and require features such as persistence, retry logic, and scheduling, or when they need to be executed in a specific order and are resource-intensive enough to potentially strain the system, a managed queuing system becomes necessary. This is especially true for operations such as batch data...
• Feb 1, 2024

  Elixir and Task: Managing asynchronous execution

  “The real world is concurrent… When you send an email, you have no idea what’s going on at the other end. You don’t share your variables with them or your data tables. They just take the message and do something. That’s how the real world works.” – Joe Armstrong