GenServer

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• agents are processes

• each bucket has a process identifier (pid)

• register processes

• atom names

• atoms are not garbage collected

• Generating atoms from user input would mean the user can inject enough different names to exhaust our system memory!

• process registry

• associates the bucket name to the bucket process.

• guarantee that it is always up to

• erving stale entries

• monitor

• A GenServer is a process that invokes a limited set of functions under specific conditions

• GenServer

• two separate functions,

• ceremony

• calls and casts.

• the client is waiting.

• Calls

• asynchronous

• won’t send a response back