Summary of Integrating with External Code
Understand three key strategies to integrate external code into Elixir applications: NIFs for high performance, ports for safe process isolation, and the Erlang distribution protocol for multi-node communication. This lesson helps you evaluate trade-offs in performance, security, and reliability to maintain robust Elixir systems.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Some useful strategies
In this chapter, we explored three strategies for integrating external code:
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Strategy 1:
Native implemented functions (NIFs) allow developers to load code into the same memory space address as the Erlang VM. It is the most ...