Elixir in Action, Third Edition (MEAP V06)

Elixir in Action, Third Edition teaches you to build production-quality distributed applications and highly available server-side systems using Elixir. This new edition is fully updated with the latest versions and features of the language. You’ll start with the foundations of the Erlang platform that underpins Elixir, then quickly progress to functional and concurrent programming. Discover how the OTP framework can radically reduce tedious low-level coding tasks, and explore practical approaches to concurrency as you learn to distribute a production system over multiple machines. Throughout, code samples and real-world examples make sure you’re learning hands-on. Inside Elixir in Action, Third Edition you’ll find: • Updates for Elixir 1.14 • Elixir modules, functions, and type system • Functional and concurrent programming • Introduction to distributed system design • Creating deployable releases