Elixir Patterns

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Elixir Patterns: The essential BEAM handbook for the busy developer

The Erlang programming language was first released in 1986 and to this day continues to have a tremendous impact on the field of computer programming. This impact is apparent when you look at how many other programming languages have actor model frameworks that mirror the semantics of Erlang and how many recent programming languages have emerged that make use of functional programming concepts. In addition, while many other programming languages and their runtimes require external tools in order to deal with application crashes, users of the Erlang virtual machine (or BEAM as it is colloquially called) enjoy fault-tolerant constructs that are built right into the runtime.

While the Erlang syntax may not be for everyone, we can still leverage the benefits of Erlang and the BEAM through the Elixir programming language. Elixir provides us an alternative programming language that can target the same runtime as Erlang while also leaning on the Erlang standard library. You essentially get all of the benefits of Erlang and the BEAM along with all of the tools available to you through the Elixir standard library.

This book guides you through the Erlang standard library and how you can leverage it from Elixir as well as how you can structure applications in order to make the most out of the unique runtime that is the BEAM. By the end of this book you will be comfortable constructing your own supervision trees, using processes, leaning on ETS and persistent term for when performance is a primary concern, and how you can use both the mutable and immutable data structures that are available in the Erlang standard library. In addition, you’ll learn how you can package these language and runtime primitives into reusable patterns in order to solve common problems that you may encounter in your day to day applications.

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