Kate Rezentes on GenServers at Simplebet
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Would I Really Need a Gen Server?
You could absolutely use a gen server to kind of take in, let's say these are like events that are coming through your system. If you start to need more concurrent applications, then maybe you would move that data into like ETS or something a little bit more concurrent so that like the calls come through gen server, but then they're actually being handed off to ETS. Would it create a different process for each user? It's generic. Set it up to be so yeah, if you wanted a gen server, you could have like a users gen server, which would be a bottleneck. So that actually kind of raises, I think a point I was struggling to remember that was going
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