The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook (Unabridged‪)‬

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.

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.

What's inside:

Covers Elixir 1.2 and 1.3
Introduction to functional concurrency with actors
Experience the awesome power of Erlang and OTP


Written for learners comfortable with a standard programming language like Ruby, Java, or Python. FP experience is helpful but not required.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.

Table of Contents

Getting started with Elixir and OTP

Introduction
A whirlwind tour 
Processes 101
Writing server applications with GenServer 


Fault tolerance, supervision, and distribution 

Concurrent error-handling and fault tolerance with links, monitors, and processes
Fault tolerance with Supervisors
Completing the worker-pool application
Distribution and load balancing
Distribution and fault tolerance
Dialyzer and type specifications
Property-based and concurrency testing