Building Distributed Systems at Scale - EMx 219

Brent Anderson is a Software engineer at Knock. He builds high-scale messaging systems in Elixir. He joins the show to talk about his article, "Using our One and Done Library to power idempotent API requests". He begins by explaining the idea of creating a library and the importance of idempotency. 
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Links 

• https://knock.app/blog/using-one-and-done-to-power-idempotency
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundering_herd_problem
• https://hex.pm/packages/socket_drano
• https://blog.heroku.com/erlang-in-anger
• http://www.erlang-in-anger.com/ 

Getting in Touch 

• @bja@social.brentjanderson.com 
• brant@knock.app 

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