Name: The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook
ISBN: 9781633430112

The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook

Elixir is a functional programming language built on the Erlang virtual machine. It combines the productivity and expressivity of Ruby with the concurrency and fault-tolerance of Erlang. Elixir makes full use of Erlang's powerful OTP library, which many developers consider the source of Erlang's greatness, so programmers can have mature, professional-quality functionality right out of the gate. Elixir's support for functional programming makes it a great choice for highly distributed event-driven applications like IoT systems. The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook gets readers programming applications with Elixir and OTP. First, it offers a quick overview of the Elixir language syntax, along with just enough functional programming to use it effectively. Then, it dives straight into OTP and shows how it helps build scalable, fault-tolerant, and distributed applications through several fun examples. Readers will rediscover the joy of programming with Elixir and remember what it feels like to be a beginner again. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

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innocentoldguyApr 2020

I think the basics of Elixir are easier to learn. The syntax is pretty straight forward and you don't have to worry about much more than functions and modules.

OPT, which is how you build supervision trees and other more complex Elixery things, is tricky at first but reading through Designing Elixir Systems with OTP, by James Edward Gray & Bruce A. Tate, and The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook, by Benjamin Tan Wei Hao should clear it up fairly well.

This is highly subjective, of course, but I've written code in C, C++, Pascal, Basic, Python, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript, Go, PHP, Java, C#, Clojure, Scheme, Cobol, and Pick Basic (of all things). Elixir has been my most favorite language so far.

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5ourpussJan 2018

We have a web application developed in elixir, it's really amazing.

I highly recommend the book: the little elixir & otp guidebook. understanding OTP and the actor model will crank your elixir code up to 11.

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lojackAug 2017

Definitely recommend reading "The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook"

The focus of the book sounds like pretty much what you're asking for. The first few chapters cover Elixir basics, but its really just a primer -- easily skippable if you already know it. Starts with implementing OTP features from scratch so you can see what they do and why they exist, then dives into how to do it using OTP.

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AbekkusJul 2017

I'd read up on the elixir language itself from the official website, then look into the "Little Elixir and OTP Guidebook"

https://www.manning.com/books/the-little-elixir-and-otp-guid...

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slashdotdashJul 2017

For anyone curious about Phoenix and Elixir, I can sincerely recommend the following resources to get you started:

- Programming Phoenix by Chris McCord, Bruce Tate, and José Valim [1]

- The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook by Benjamin Tan Wei Hao [2]

- Elixir in Action by Saša Jurić [3]

Phoenix initially attracted me to Elixir, I've stuck around for that and the OTP platform: pattern matching, process based concurrency (actor model), supervision, immutability, macros, and more.

"Elixir took the Erlang virtual machine, BEAM, and put a sensible face on it. It gives you all the power of Erlang plus a powerful macro system." – Dave Thomas

[1] https://startlearningelixir.com/r/programming-phoenix

[2] https://startlearningelixir.com/r/the-little-elixir-and-otp-...

[3] https://startlearningelixir.com/r/elixir-in-action

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jmcgoughJul 2017

+1 on "The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook". It's a generally good introduction to OTP, though the book has a lot more errors than I'm used to seeing (their github code differs without explanation from the code in the book at times, and sometimes one or the other won't run successfully).

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