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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.

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Some useful strategies

In this chapter, we explored three strategies for integrating external code:

  • 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 ...