elixir-horde/horde

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

Horde is an Elixir library providing a distributed supervisor (Horde.DynamicSupervisor) and distributed registry (Horde.Registry) built on DeltaCrdt, enabling multi-node Elixir applications with dynamic cluster membership. It closely mirrors the APIs of Elixir's standard library Supervisor and Registry for near drop-in replacement.

Use cases

• distribute supervised processes across multiple Elixir nodes
• run a distributed process registry in a cluster
• build a fault-tolerant clustered Elixir application
• replace Registry and Supervisor with distributed versions
• handle dynamic node joins and leaves in a BEAM cluster
• supervise processes cluster-wide with a hash ring

When to choose

• you need distributed supervision or a distributed registry in Elixir
• your cluster membership changes dynamically and you need eventual consistency
• you want an API close to Elixir's standard Supervisor/Registry

When to avoid

• you only need a single global singleton process (use Highlander instead)
• you need strong, immediate consistency rather than CRDT-based eventual consistency
• you rely on Registry features like keys: :duplicate

Facets

library · maturity active

concurrency microservices middleware microservices backend developer-tools elixir jvm cross-platform distributed-supervisor distributed-registry crdt hash-ring fault-tolerance clustering process-management

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