https://www.poeticoding.com/tag/parallelism/Recent content in parallelism on PoeticodingHugoenSat, 04 May 2019 19:11:23 +0000https://www.poeticoding.com/spawning-processes-in-elixir-a-gentle-introduction-to-concurrency/Wed, 06 Mar 2019 12:35:26 +0000https://www.poeticoding.com/spawning-processes-in-elixir-a-gentle-introduction-to-concurrency/<p>Along with <a href="https://www.poeticoding.com/the-beauty-of-pattern-matching-in-elixir/">pattern matching</a>, one of the coolest things in Erlang and Elixir is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model" target="_blank" rel="noopener">their concurrency implementation based on Actor model</a>. In this article I introduce concurrency and show how we can start making our code concurrent in Elixir, using processes.</p> <h2 id="concurrency">Concurrency</h2> <p>We can think of concurrency as dealing with multiple things happening, and progressing, at the same time.</p>