bitwalker/swarm

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Swarm is a global distributed process registry and worker distribution library for Erlang/Elixir, similar to gproc but designed for dynamic node membership and high-volume process registration. It handles distributing, locating, and routing messages to processes across a cluster, including rebalancing on topology changes.

Use cases

• register and find processes across an Erlang cluster
• distribute worker processes across nodes in Kubernetes
• route messages to processes from anywhere in a cluster
• restart or relocate processes when a node goes down
• manage large volumes of device connection processes
• avoid leader election deadlocks in dynamic clusters

When to choose

• you run a cluster of Erlang/Elixir nodes with dynamic membership (e.g., under Kubernetes)
• you need a global process registry that scales to large registration volumes
• you want worker processes distributed and rebalanced across cluster topology changes

When to avoid

• you need strongly consistent registry state rather than eventual consistency
• you need autoclustering without adding the separate libcluster package
• your project is not on the BEAM (Erlang/Elixir) platform

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

concurrency microservices routing microservices backend developer-tools elixir jvm cloud process-registry erlang-distribution clustering distributed-registry worker-distribution eventual-consistency elixir linux docker kubernetes

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