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Planning Our Lifecycle

Explore the concept of project lifecycle in Elixir's OTP environment, focusing on supervisors' role in clean starting, stopping, and recovering from failure. Understand how proper lifecycle management ensures system resilience and reliability.

Project lifecycle

We’ll break with tradition and use the word ‘lifecycle’ instead of ‘supervisor’. Most Elixir developers think of Elixir’s supervision as a way to handle failure, and it’s easy to see why. Some Erlang deployments using OTP have been up for years at a time. If you’ve been telling yourself that supervisors are about failure, we want to help ...