GenServer: How I Finally Learned to Keep State in a Stateless Language

GenServer: How I Finally Learned to Keep State in a Stateless Language

Bernard O. Ansah Feb 23, 2026 7 min
In my last post, I wrote about getting over my fear of concurrency by understanding Elixir’s lightweight processes. I was enthusiastically using spawn...
#Elixir#GenServer#OTP
Stop Fearing the

Stop Fearing the "Process": How Elixir Cured My Concurrency Anxiety

Bernard O. Ansah Feb 14, 2026 6 min
Coming from a Ruby on Rails background, the word “Thread” used to scare me.Not in a dramatic way. In a production-incident-at-2am kind of way.In the R...
#Elixir#Concurrency#Ruby on Rails

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