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Test Driving OTP - creating a registry with expiring entries

Following up on the previous post on using UDP multicasting to broadcast and detect peers on a network, I create a registry of those peers - expiring those that we have not heard from recently.

This posts leans quite heavily into iterating to a solution using Test Driven Development.

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