PacerAntiPatterns

Practical examples of anti-patterns using Pacer Workflows

Motivation

Let me start by saying that I am a huge fan of Pacer. If you have many datapoints that depend on each other in a way that you can't hold in your head then a Pacer workflow is an excellent way to manage the chaos, you can focus on one datapoint at a time and list out it's dependencies. Pacer will figure out the order of execution.

I also like the performance improvements that can be gained when some of those datapoints can be fetched in Parallel.

My reason for creating this repo was because I wanted to clearly communicate my intent and not come across like I am Poopooing on Pacer. I just want to make sure we are not using it in scenarios where it does not have the opportunity to shine.

How to run the tests

mix test

How to run the benchmark

Benchee.run(
  %{
    "workflow" => &CompiledBenchmark.workflow/0,
    "module" => &CompiledBenchmark.module/0
    },
  time: 10,
  memory_time: 2
)