Hey all, I’m implementing the Swirld Hashgraph Conensus Algorithm in Elixir right now. I have the basics of the Algorithm down; however, I want to start to test it. Basically, I want to create a TCP server capable of discovering other nodes on the network (using mDNS, Erlang has this) that will bot…

[image] seanmor5: Is it as simple as using spawn or the Task API? Yup. Processes are always async with respect to each other. If you’ve got an erlang node and you want multiple things to run at the same time, just spawn a process to do each thing. If that process will be short lived, use a Ta…

Thanks! In the case of Sending data, if I want to repeatedly send some data to a random node on the network after some set time delay, is it best to do this in the same, long-living process? OR should a process be spawned every time I want to send something? That is: spawn process, send data, de…

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kokolegorille September 6, 2019, 3:02am 4

It is probably enough to use Process.send_after in the long-living process.