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The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook (Manning)
by Benjamin Tan Wei Hao
The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook gets you started programming applications with Elixir and OTP. You begin with a quick overview of the Elixir language syntax, along with just enough functional programming to use it effectively. Then, you’ll dive straight into OTP and learn how it helps you build scalable, fault-tolerant and distributed applications through several fun examples.
About the technology
Elixir is an elegant programming language that combines the expressiveness of Ruby with the concurrency and fault-tolerance of Erlang. It makes full use of Erlang?s BEAM VM and OTP library, so you get two decades? worth of maturity and reliability right out of the gate. Elixir?s support for functional programming makes it perfect for modern event-driven applications.
About the book
The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook gets you started writing applications with Elixir and OTP. You?ll begin with the immediately comfortable Elixir language syntax, along with just enough functional programming to use it effectively. Then, you?ll dive straight into several lighthearted examples that teach you to take advantage of the incredible functionality built into the OTP library.
What’s inside
- Covers Elixir 1.2 and 1.3
- Introduction to functional concurrency with actors
- Experience the awesome power of Erlang and OTP
- About the reader
- Written for readers comfortable with a standard programming language like Ruby, Java, or Python. FP experience is helpful but not required.
About the author
Benjamin Tan Wei Hao is a software engineer at Pivotal Labs, Singapore. He is also an author, a speaker, and an early adopter of Elixir.
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bentanweihao
Ohai @drwolfe! Said author here. :D.
I don’t think there are going to be major changes in the code, primarily because I didn’t use anything particularly fancy. So in other words, but Elixir code is pretty basic and I don’t think there should be much changes.
I placed quite a bit of focus on how OTP works under the hood rather than “check out this cool syntactical feature!” (except pattern matching because pattern matching is cool).
Hope this makes sense.
sweeneydavidj
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david_ex
I ran into similar challenges as you, so I wrote blog posts about the pool supervision chapter (i.e. pooly) with code updated to Elixir 1.6 which may be of interest to you (and @drwolfe when you get there).
bentanweihao
I have sooooo many books that I haven’t gotten around to read yet … Life is hard.
peerreynders
Then what are you waiting for?
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