Back on a previous project I worked with Heroku.
Heroku has a great setup for applications. You deploy to a git repo and have a parallel set of configuration via a UI/API.
If either changes the application redeploys the application.
On a walk this morning I realised that you could recreate some of this behaviour inside your Elixir (or other BEAM based) application.
If you had a supervisor with an all for one restart policy, if the Config Watcher notices a change it can simply terminate itself and restart the Worker service that depends upon the configuration.
The Config worker is both the cache for the data and periodically checks for changes.
This requires you to keep the configuration watcher specific to the service that uses it to reduce the blast radius of changes.
This seems like a different pattern of use to the typical supervisor.
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