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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

Schemas and migrations


Given we are now connected to the database, we will set the data foundations of our project. In this section, we'll create the schemas that represent our users and their media, and the corresponding data migrations.

Schemas

Our ElixirDrip project allows users to safely store their media, and eventually share it with other users. Therefore, we need to have a way to represent users and media as database tables.

To help developers with this, Ecto has the schema construct. Its purpose is to establish a mapping between any information stored in the database and its representation in Elixir data structures.

 

Let's define the schema to represent the users' media:

$ cat apps/elixir_drip/lib/elixir_drip/storage/media.ex
defmodule ElixirDrip.Storage.Media do
  use Ecto.Schema

  schema "storage_media" do
    field :user_id, :id
    field :file_name, :string
    field :full_path, :string
    field :file_size, :integer
    field :metadata, :map, default: %{}
    field :encryption_key...