Introduce GenStage
Explore GenStage as a foundation for building data processing pipelines in Elixir. Learn how stages function as processes that handle events and how back-pressure controls data flow to ensure efficient concurrency. This lesson provides insights into designing flexible pipelines tailored to your needs.
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The history of GenStage
GenStage was initially developed by José Valim, the creator of Elixir, and released in July 2016. As he described it in the official announcement:
“GenStage is a new Elixir behaviour for exchanging events with back-pressure between Elixir processes.”
The previous chapter uses the GenServer behaviour to build long-running server processes. The GenStage behaviour, as its name suggests, builds stages. Stages are also Elixir processes, and ...