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An Introduction to the Task Module

Explore Elixir's Task module to understand how it simplifies running concurrent processes, managing results, and handling failures. Learn to process data lists, link processes, and use supervisors to build fault-tolerant concurrent applications on the Erlang VM.

Set up the tools

In this course, we cover the most popular tools for performing concurrent work using Elixir. We’ll learn about the pros and cons of each one and see how they work in practice. Like the Task module and GenServer, some of them come with Elixir. Other tools like GenStage, Flow, and Broadway are available as stand-alone libraries in the Hex.pm package registry. Knowing how to utilize each of these tools will ...