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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

ElixirDrip – our showcase application


To clearly illustrate how you may incorporate the concepts and strategies in this book, we will develop a fully fledged web application named ElixirDrip, which was kick-started by the umbrella project we have just created.

ElixirDrip aims to be a fast and scalable web storage service, allowing the user to easily store and share their files living on the cloud. Our users will be able to upload files to their cloud storage and then share those files with other ElixirDrip users.

We will be adding features to the ElixirDrip umbrella application as we progress, taking it closer to our final goal with each chapter. The most important features of our application will be tackled in specific chapters throughout this book. Consider the following:

  • The design and implementation of our domain model will be analyzed in Chapter 7Persisting Data Using Ecto, when we talk about data persistence and the usage of Ecto to efficiently query and update our application data...