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The :syn library provides a distributed process registry for Elixir applications, offering an alternative to :global for name registration across clusters. It allows you to define custom event handler callbacks to handle process conflicts and registration scenarios.

When working with large distributed Elixir clusters at Logflare/Supabase, we encountered situations where the syn_gen_scope gen_server process would become overwhelmed with messages during cross-cluster synchronization. This happens particularly when thousands of processes register under a single scope, causing the message queue to grow significantly and impacting cluster discovery and synchronization performance.