Kate Rezentes on GenServers at Simplebet
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Is There a Use Case for Gen Servers?
The most common use case that you see for somebody having to write their gen server is in a lickser application. The only time I've ever built one was for an application that needed to handle state for when the application went down and when it came back. That's kind of like an edge, not an edge case, but if you're trying to flow a lot of data through a gen server concurrently, that can kind of slow down your application. But yeah, I think owning an S table is how I've used it primarily.
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