🔗 Doing Background Work Using a Native Elixir Approach

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If you've used Ruby before, background job queues are a tool you might reflexively reach for when building applications in Elixir. While such solutions exist, you may find that they aren't used that much in Elixir, which might leave you wondering why. I mean, don't Elixir applications perform asynchronous jobs? Yes! But it's thought about a bit differently.

Today we'll look at the different solutions Elixir has for performing background work, and when you would use which. Along the way, we'll learn how Elixir's native constructs make background work a beautiful matter of spawning a process.

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