In the Creating a stateful server process (messages with counters) and Using agents as an abstraction around states recipes, we saw that in order to maintain the state in our processes, we had to be passing the function calls to the state.
This solves the problem when a process needs to maintain states, but what if we need to share some data between multiple processes?
One of the solutions is the use of a structure that allows concurrent access and is really effective in the retrieval of data. This structure is called ETS.
In this recipe, we will create a small wrapper around an ETS table that can be used as a key/value store.