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Mastering Elixir

By : André Albuquerque, Daniel Caixinha
Book Image

Mastering Elixir

By: André Albuquerque, Daniel Caixinha

Overview of this book

Running concurrent, fault-tolerant applications that scale is a very demanding responsibility. After learning the abstractions that Elixir gives us, developers are able to build such applications with inconceivable low effort. There is a big gap between playing around with Elixir and running it in production, serving live requests. This book will help you fll this gap by going into detail on several aspects of how Elixir works and showing concrete examples of how to apply the concepts learned to a fully ?edged application. In this book, you will learn how to build a rock-solid application, beginning by using Mix to create a new project. Then you will learn how the use of Erlang's OTP, along with the Elixir abstractions that run on top of it (such as GenServer and GenStage), that allow you to build applications that are easy to parallelize and distribute. You will also master supervisors (and supervision trees), and comprehend how they are the basis for building fault-tolerant applications. Then you will use Phoenix to create a web interface for your application. Upon fnishing implementation, you will learn how to take your application to the cloud, using Kubernetes to automatically deploy, scale, and manage it. Last, but not least, you will keep your peace of mind by learning how to thoroughly test and then monitor your application.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
5
Demand-Driven Processing
Index

Summary


We concluded this chapter with the distributed and cloud-hosted up-and-running version of ElixirDrip. From our humble beginning, where we delved into how releases work with Distillery, until the very end, with the application running in Kubernetes and being automatically deployed by Travis CI, we applied many interesting concepts and tools. We also containerized our application and applied some of the main Kubernetes building blocks, such as pods, services, and secrets.

You should also be aware that security wasn't a primary concern of this chapter's examples, so don't consider these exhaustive examples ready to be applied in a production environment, but instead as possible starting points for common aspects of nearly every Elixir application:

  • Configuring a Distillery release with custom release tasks
  • Containerizing an application with the end goal of building a streamlined release image and simplifying development in the local environment
  • Interacting with a Kubernetes cluster by using...