🔗 Managing distributed state with GenServers in Phoenix and Elixir

Phoenix and Elixir are designed at their core to build real-time, fault-tolerant applications. With its elegant syntax and the robustness of the Erlang VM, Elixir is an ideal candidate for tackling the challenges of distributed state management.

This two-part series will guide Phoenix/Elixir developers through the intricacies of working with Phoenix in a distributed setup.

The focus of this first post will be on GenServers — the key components behind state management in distributed systems. We will explore how GenServers can be leveraged to maintain state across nodes in a Phoenix application, ensuring data consistency and fault tolerance. We’ll break down the complexities of GenServers and distributed state management into manageable and understandable segments.