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		doawoo on Nov 3, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ractor – a Rust Actor Framework The Erlang runtime and EPMD takes care of this for you. Every node in the cluster gets a name, so you can address it directly, and, every PID is unique across nodes on a cluster, so you can send messages to processes (actors) no matter where they are in the cluster. OTP is super powerful out of the box :)

brunoqc on Nov 3, 2024 [–]

Thanks! I'm taking a look at https://github.com/wmealing/gleam-distribution-demo/tree/mai...

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https://github.com/wmealing/gleam-otp-design-principals/blob...

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