Distributed Erlang Lessons from Livebook

Livebook runs each notebook on its own BEAM node, connects to Phoenix apps transparently, and spins up runtimes on remote machines, all without EPMD. How?

In this talk, we’ll highlight three distributed Erlang techniques from Livebook’s source code. For each one, you’ll see the real-world Livebook feature first, then the Erlang primitive that powers it, followed by a simple standalone example you can use immediately.