Wrapping Up
Get a recap of what we've learned in this chapter.
This chapter wasn’t the easiest, so congratulations on completing it! Although slightly intimidating at first, GenStage is a brilliant tool that gives Elixir an advantage over other programming languages. Of course, as Elixir’s creator José Valim has pointed out many times, none of it would be possible without Erlang’s rock-solid OTP serving as a foundation.
Back-pressure
This chapter looked at back-pressure and its problems when building and scaling data processing pipelines.