🔗 Building distributed systems in Elixir: Part 4 — Process linking

In this article, Krishnadaspc dives into the concept of process linking in Elixir, exploring how failure relationships affect processes. He explains that when a parent process and a worker process are linked, if one fails, the other can be impacted, which helps maintain system integrity. The piece showcases examples using spawn_link/1 and Process.flag(:trap_exit, true) to illustrate how to create and manage linked processes. It elaborates on how abnormal exits propagate exit signals and how they differ from normal exits. Readers learn the importance of managing these relationships for building resilient distributed systems.