Learn Elixir: OTP, GenServers, Agents, & Tasks

Level : OTP, GenServers, Agents, & Tasks; learn the fundamentals of how we use OTP inside of Elixir. For more information on Learn Elixir please visit Follow us on Facebook or LinkedIn for the latest in Elixir news, articles, or updates: Transcript: Hello and welcome to learn elixir. Week five module one. In this video we’re going to be talking about the fundamentals of how we use OTP inside of elixir and that’s gen servers, agents and tasks. These three are all process of abstractions that allow us to control and manage a process by using an abstraction that makes it easier to actually work with that process. Each three of these have very defined roles, however, a few of them do very similar things so it can actually be a bit confusing in which case we use what we’ll start out with gen servers which stand for general server. These can be used to receive and send messages and have a callback