Start Tasks and Retrieve Results
Explore how to use Elixir's Task module to start concurrent tasks and retrieve their results efficiently. Learn to simulate long-running operations and improve execution time by running tasks in parallel, enhancing your ability to manage asynchronous processes.
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Simple examples
To keep our project and examples simple, we won’t send real emails. However, we still need some business logic for our experiments. We use the Process.sleep/1 function to pretend to send an email. This is usually a slow operation and can take a few seconds to complete. When called with an integer, Process.sleep/1 stops the current process for the given amount of time in milliseconds. This is very handy because we can simulate code that takes a long time to complete. We can also test various edge cases, as we’ll see later. ...