Consistent Distributed Elixir
March 24, 2018
Elixir and Erlang provide powerful mechanisms for building systems that are always available. But when it comes to building distributed systems that need consistency erlang leaves many of the implementation details up to the programmer.
This talks discusses the tradeoffs between these two paradigms. It analyzes the types of garauntees (or lack thereof) that standard erlang tooling gives us. We wrap up by discussing the process of building an implementation of the Raft consensus algorithm in Elixir.