elixir-design-genserver
Design or review Elixir GenServer modules. Decides whether a process is justified at all, detects mailbox queuing and serialization bottlenecks, picks call vs cast, shapes the client API, and places the server under supervision. Use when writing a new GenServer, reviewing an existing one, deciding where an actor belongs, or diagnosing a process that became a bottleneck. Do not use for: (1) designing full supervision trees across an application, (2) distributed Erlang or clustering, (3) Phoenix LiveView or Channel processes, (4) GenStage, Broadway, or Flow pipelines.
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- skills/elixir-design-genserver/SKILL.md
- skills/elixir-design-genserver/references/anti-pattern-database-gatekeeper.md
- skills/elixir-design-genserver/references/callback-patterns.md
- skills/elixir-design-genserver/references/example-chat-room.md
- skills/elixir-design-genserver/references/handle-info.md
- skills/elixir-design-genserver/references/mailbox-queuing.md
- skills/elixir-design-genserver/references/naming.md
- skills/elixir-design-genserver/references/process-justification.md
- skills/elixir-design-genserver/references/queuing-chunk-long-work.md
- skills/elixir-design-genserver/references/queuing-large-replies.md
- skills/elixir-design-genserver/references/queuing-offload-slow-work.md
- skills/elixir-design-genserver/references/queuing-partition-by-key.md
- skills/elixir-design-genserver/references/queuing-pool-resources.md
- skills/elixir-design-genserver/references/queuing-process-per-entity.md
- skills/elixir-design-genserver/references/queuing-reads-from-ets.md
- skills/elixir-design-genserver/references/queuing-remove-the-process.md
- skills/elixir-design-genserver/references/queuing-shed-load.md
- skills/elixir-design-genserver/references/request-response.md
- skills/elixir-design-genserver/references/resource-lifecycle-ownership.md
- skills/elixir-design-genserver/references/review-checklist.md
- skills/elixir-design-genserver/references/supervision-and-testing.md
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