9 - GenServers in Elixir

In this video we dive into Generic Servers (aka GenServers), explore the differences between an Agent and a GS, implement a simple gen server that does some background work, and plant the seed to work with Supervisors and Supervision Trees in the Elixir language. Sections: 00:00 Intro 00:17 Disclaimer 01:19 Recap & episode intro 01:47 Agent vs GenServer 05:11 Server API 11:32 Client API 15:03 Background work 19:55 What about crashes? 20:23 Virtual Machine :observer 22:11 A process managing another 24:48 Death of a monitored process 25:42 Catch-all handle_info function 26:30 Links are bi-directional 27:21 Intro on supervision trees 29:28 Outro Video Links: