Chapter 6Distributed Elixir
Most programmers think of distributed systems as black magic, at once mysterious, valuable, and extraordinarily sensitive. They’re not far from wrong, but nearly all systems have distributed elements—every mobile application that reaches a server to exchange information, a load balanced web server, each new car navigation system that is part of a network, an application that communicates with a database, even simple web servers that connect to a social network for authentication. As programming requirements change, languages have to change with them.
The fact of the matter is that distributed systems are hard. Elixir doesn’t make them easy. It merely tries to make things a bit easier by offering tools, abstractions, ...
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