ElixirConf 2018 - Docker and OTP Friends or Foes - Daniel Azuma

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended for its practical strategy for preserving state on ephemeral containers, and for the live demo.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

ElixirConf

Topic

elixir in containers

Format

talk

Level

advanced

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2023

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From the original HN conversations

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• Horde is indeed a really interesting Elixir library. It's based on the CRDT library, DeltaCrdt [0], also by Derek Kraan. He discusses DeltaCrdt here [1] and Horde here [2]. BTW, Horde is a distributed supervisor, i.e. analogous to what regular Elixir OTP supervisors do, except …

• Honestly, in most scenarios, you kill the vm and let it restart with new code (just like you would in a kubernetes pod, and in fact using kubernetes pods with BEAM languages is also a valid strategy). If you must keep some state preserved, there's …

• You can use Docker + containers with OTP, they are not mutually exclusive. Daniel Azuma gave a talk at the most recent Elixirconf about this subject.[0] [0]: [VIDEO]