GenStage and Backpressure Pipelines
Build demand-driven data pipelines with GenStage, where consumers control flow through backpressure to prevent overload in distributed systems.
The Overload Problem
When a fast producer feeds a slow consumer, messages pile up and memory explodes. Backpressure solves this: consumers signal how much work they can handle, and producers send only that much.
What is GenStage?
GenStage is an Elixir behaviour for building staged, demand-driven pipelines. Data flows from producers to consumers, with optional producer-consumer stages in between.
All lessons in this course
- Distributed Elixir and Clustering
- Advanced Supervisor Strategies
- Dynamic Supervisors and Registry
- GenStage and Backpressure Pipelines