The many and varied ways to kill an OTP Process

This is an overview of different ways to try and kill an OTP process (in Elixir) and the behaviour to expect when that happens. I know this is fairly basic stuff, but it’s the kind of thing I find myself forgetting and having to recheck, and the documentation I know about is a bit scattered.

I hope to follow up with the impact on on linked and monitoring processes.

As a bonus, the post is an executable LiveBook page, which you can download and execute yourself.

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