Manage the State with a State Machine

The state in an Elixir project

Handling the state is an important topic in web development these days. There are evolving ideas and practices in both the front and back-end worlds. It’s time we talk more directly about how to manage the state in an Elixir project.

The BEAMBogdan Erlang Abstract Machine’s concurrency and fault tolerance bring truly stateful web applications within reach. However, stateful applications bring their own challenges. Managing the state over time requires great care and coordination. Keeping the code clean in the process provides an ...