ProducerConsumer

Producer's job is to generate data (a beer), put into the buffer (a fixed-size queue), and start again. At the same time, Consumers are consuming the data (removing it from the buffer), one piece at a time.

Consumers will ask for beer when they're available and Producers will be sending beers they made.

You can have multiple Producers and Consumers running, you must ensure that:

• All Consumers drink and do it in request order;
• Beers made first are consumed first;
• Don't put beers into buffer if the buffer is full.

Dependencies

To run this project you must have Elixir installed on your machine.

• Elixir 1.2 or above

Running

You can run Elixir’s interactive shell including Mix to compile the code.

iex -S mix

Then to start you need to pass a number of producers, consumers and the buffer size:

Manager.start(producers: 3, consumers: 4, buffer_size: 5)