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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

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So far, we have been running the application with mix or mix phx.server, and our code was being compiled on the fly before running. This way, only files changed after the last compilation are recompiled before running the application, contributing to a fast development experience.

Note

If you're inside an IEx shell (that is, you started the application with iex -S mix), you can also call the recompile/0 function whenever you want to compile the changes you just made, instead of having to quit and start the application again. This only works if you're inside a Mix project.

 

The code we're running is perfectly capable of performing its duties in production, but we don't want to deploy it like this. If we copy the umbrella project folder to production and then run it with mix phx.server, we would also be deploying the development and test dependencies and the entire source code of the application, resulting in an inefficient and unsafe production environment.

Because of...