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Saša Jurić
May 20, 2017
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Transcript
Solid ground @sasajuric aircloak.com
pattern matching OTP metaprogramming mix Distillery the pipe operator Cowboy
Plug Phoenix Ecto functional programming community GenStage Credo ExUnit Combine Poolboy Nerves
None
LFE Erlang OTP BEAM Elixir Phoenix GenStage Ecto Plug magic
source magic beneficiaries Cowboy Poolboy
long-running system many tasks soft real-time finite time program all-or-nothing
hard real-time
scheduler scheduler scheduler scheduler BEAM CPU CPU CPU CPU
frequent context switches
t1 t2 t3 t4 t5 10 s 1 ms 1
ms 1 ms 1 ms
t1 BEAM scheduler t2 t3 t4 t5 t1
t1 cooperative scheduler t2 t3 t4 t5
thread 1 thread n long running task long running task
blocked cooperative scheduler …
thread 1 thread n long running task long running task
BEAM scheduler … not blocked :-)
activities as runtime citizens
send(pid, :please_stop)
mref = Process.monitor(pid) send(pid, :please_stop) receive do {:DOWN, ^mref, :process,
^pid, _reason} -> :ok end
mref = Process.monitor(pid) send(pid, :please_stop) receive do {:DOWN, ^mref, :process,
^pid, _reason} -> :ok after :timer.seconds(5) -> Process.exit(pid, :kill) receive do {:DOWN, ^mref, :process, ^pid, _reason} -> :ok end end
task = Task.async(fn -> ... end) case Task.yield(task, :timer.seconds(5)) do
{:ok, result} -> do_something(result) nil -> Task.shutdown(task, :brutal_kill) end
shared-nothing concurrency
Process heap resources
process-owned “stuff” is released
supervision tree
system backend frontend chat history repo cache endpoint
system backend chat history repo
supervisor foundations frequent context switching activities as runtime citizens observable
process termination stoppable processes shared-nothing concurrency
syntax developer friendliness ecosystem
runtime guarantees syntax developer friendliness ecosystem
Scales of Justice image taken from clipartfox.com How Erlang does
scheduling http://jlouisramblings.blogspot.hr/2013/01/how-erlang-does-scheduling.html Erlang scheduler details https://hamidreza-s.github.io/erlang/scheduling/real-time/preemptive/migration/ 2016/02/09/erlang-scheduler-details.html The BEAM book https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook BEAM wisdoms http://beam-wisdoms.clau.se/en/latest/ Web based observer https://github.com/shinyscorpion/wobserver Recon http://ferd.github.io/recon/ Erlang performance lab http://www.erlang.pl/