I decided to see how much fun it would be to write an elixir app to
- poll an API on one process and maintain a read model of "things" to deal with
- poll a second API on another process for each of the "things" of the read model built by the first process
- when the second API indicates "a change" call a third artificially slow API to simulate sending a notification of that change.
I.e. if the read model contains 200 items there would be 200 processes each polling to check for notifications
- it's weeks since I last wrote Elixir and it's always fun when I do so I thought I'd play with it
- this is the kind of problem I'd normally want to delegate to a queue and I wondered how much I could avoid that with this approach
- my kids are all in bed
TODO
- set up API one
- set up API two
- set up API three
- elixir read model builder
- elixir read model pollers
- elixir notifier(s?)