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A Global Elixir Phoenix Multiplayer Game
How I took “Mowing” (a LiveView minesweeper clone) from running a single game per deployed instance into a global game with persistent state. Elixir clustering, Fly RPC, and Tigris!
https://www.strangeleaflet.com/blog/a-global-elixir-phoenix-multiplayer-game
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