Hi all, I’m wondering if I can get some advice on basic OTP design: I need to batch send API requests in batches of 5 but no request should wait for more than 10 seconds before being sent. I have a flawed working version - a batch_server GenServer whose state is a map with a reference id key and v…

[image] jmurphyweb: parent GenServer who keeps a register of BatchServers and can therefore allocate tasks to a running BatchServer or spin up a new one if there are none open. This matches what :poolboy does pretty well - it’s an Erlang library, but here’s a writeup on how to use it in Elixi…

When you say SYNCHRONOUSLY is it that you want to Just ensure errors are propagated Never execute two batches at the same time Return a value from executing the batch? Ensure errors are handled (case 1) Here we’re just using spawn_link() to run the work, so the batch processor is not blocked, but…

@al2o3cr Great. Thanks for pointing that out, I’ve never used directly but assumed this was a pattern that is widely used. I’ll take a look at the docs. @dominicletz This is fantastic answer, I really appreciate that! This is a challenge I have for a job I’m applying for, I am not sure about er…

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al2o3cr October 22, 2020, 11:19am 2

This matches what :poolboy does pretty well - it’s an Erlang library, but here’s a writeup on how to use it in Elixir