Season 9 is in full swing and we are so excited to welcome Kate Rezentes today to dive into the particulars of GenServers. Kate is a Junior Software Developer at Simplebet, a B2B product development company using machine learning and real-time technology to make every moment of every sporting event a betting opportunity. Tune in today to learn more from today’s special guest, Kate Rezentes!
Key Points From This Episode:
- A brief breakdown of today’s topic and introduction to our special guest, Kate Rezentes
- We learn about Kate’s background and her long history with programming
- We discuss how many conferences she’s attended and why ElixirConf has been her favorite (thus far)
- Find out how Kate landed a job while attending ElixirConf
- How GenServers as a subject came to be
- We get an inside look at Kate’s working experience at Simplebet and her experience as a Junior Engineer in the industry so far
- What cases in particular cause the need for a GenServer
- We discuss where GenServers would be appropriate to use and why
- The ins and outs of ‘handle calls’ and ‘callbacks’
- The process of testing a GenServer and data storage_
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