July 24, 2023

Managing Large Files in Elixir Applications

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Managing Large Files in Elixir Applications

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Claudio Ortolina's blog post examines the difficulties associated with managing large files in Elixir and presents ways to mitigate common issues such as memory exhaustion, leaks, and I/O and CPU starvation. He provides examples pertaining to a file system cache store, SHA-256 checksum calculation, and fetching large files from a remote source. Each example begins with a basic implementation that highlights the problems, followed by strategies to optimize memory usage and system resources. Ortolina recommends collecting metrics, controlling process resource usage, and suggests tools like telemetry, epocxy, and Recon for monitoring and testing.

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