Elixir Programming (Paperback)
Daniel C. Price
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Add to basketPaperback. Are you tired of building fragile applications that break under load? Do you spend more time worrying about race conditions and thread safety than you do building features? The applications we need to build today-real-time apps, high-traffic APIs, and services that simply can't go down-are pushing traditional languages to their limits.This book shows you a better way. It's a journey into a different way of thinking, rooted in the Actor Model and the powerful "let it crash" philosophy. Instead of defensively coding against every possible error, I'll show you how to build systems that are designed for failure-systems that heal themselves, that manage state safely, and that scale with an elegance you've never experienced before.What's insideThis book is a hands-on workshop, not a dry manual. I will guide you through: Thinking Functionally: Master the core concepts of immutability, pattern matching, and the elegant pipe operator.Harnessing Concurrency: You won't just learn about Elixir's lightweight processes; you'll use them to handle thousands of simultaneous tasks with ease.Building with OTP: Go from raw processes to the industrial-strength Open Telecom Platform (OTP). You'll master GenServer to manage state and Supervisor to build self-healing applications.Project 1: A Concurrent Key-Value Store: Apply your new OTP skills to build a high-performance, in-memory database from scratch.Going Distributed: Learn to connect multiple Elixir nodes into a single cluster and see the magic of location transparency in action.Capstone Project: A Distributed Chat App: Build a complete, real-time chat application that runs across multiple servers, proving you have what it takes to build truly modern systems.Who it's meant forThis book is written for you, the practicing developer.If you're coming from Python, Ruby, Java, C#, or JavaScript, you already know how to build software. You're just wondering if there's a better way to handle the growing demands of concurrency and reliability. You don't need any prior Elixir or functional programming experience-just a curious mind and a desire to build applications that are fast, scalable, and practically unbreakable.Stop just reading about concurrency and start mastering it. This is your chance to learn the "secret" that powers some of the world's most reliable systems.Get your copy of Elixir Programming: A Hands-On Guide today and start building applications that are truly built for the modern, distributed world. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Are you tired of building fragile applications that break under load? Do you spend more time worrying about race conditions and thread safety than you do building features? The applications we need to build today—real-time apps, high-traffic APIs, and services that simply can't go down—are pushing traditional languages to their limits.
This book shows you a better way. It's a journey into a different way of thinking, rooted in the Actor Model and the powerful "let it crash" philosophy. Instead of defensively coding against every possible error, I'll show you how to build systems that are designed for failure—systems that heal themselves, that manage state safely, and that scale with an elegance you've never experienced before.
This book is a hands-on workshop, not a dry manual. I will guide you through:
This book is written for you, the practicing developer.
If you're coming from Python, Ruby, Java, C#, or JavaScript, you already know how to build software. You're just wondering if there's a better way to handle the growing demands of concurrency and reliability. You don't need any prior Elixir or functional programming experience—just a curious mind and a desire to build applications that are fast, scalable, and practically unbreakable.
Stop just reading about concurrency and start mastering it. This is your chance to learn the "secret" that powers some of the world's most reliable systems.
Get your copy of Elixir Programming: A Hands-On Guide today and start building applications that are truly built for the modern, distributed world.
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