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Mastering Elixir

You're reading from   Mastering Elixir Build and scale concurrent, distributed, and fault-tolerant applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788472678
Length 574 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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André Albuquerque André Albuquerque
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Daniel Caixinha Daniel Caixinha
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Preparing for the Journey Ahead 2. Innards of an Elixir Project FREE CHAPTER 3. Processes – The Bedrock of Concurrency and Fault Tolerance 4. Powered by Erlang/OTP 5. Demand-Driven Processing 6. Metaprogramming – Code That Writes Itself 7. Persisting Data Using Ecto 8. Phoenix – A Flying Web Framework 9. Finding Zen through Testing 10. Deploying to the Cloud 11. Keeping an Eye on Your Processes 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Powered by Erlang/OTP

As we saw in the previous chapter, a common idiom, also seen in Erlang, is to spawn processes to keep state and concurrently perform computations whose side effects may be retrieved by some means afterwards. This approach gives you endless possibilities but is more verbose and prone to errors, given it requires you to build on top of the existing basic primitives from the get-go.

To help with the previous issue, the Erlang creators decided to create higher-level abstractions for some common use cases and collected the recommended design principles to apply when writing Erlang projects. Thus, a set of libraries named Open Telecom Platform (OTP) was born.

In this chapter, we will delve into some of those incredibly useful OTP behaviours that Elixir inherited from Erlang, such as GenServer, and some of the abstractions provided by Elixir...

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