Elixir in Action, 2nd Edition

The Elixir language blends the battle-tested power and stability of the Erlang virtual machine with an approachable and expressive syntax.

Elixir in Action, Second Edition teaches you how to use the Elixir programming language to solve the practical problems of scalability, fault tolerance, and high availability. This new edition is fully updated to cover Elixir 1.7 with new and improved code examples.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

Table of Contents

1: First steps
2: Building blocks
3: Control flow
4: Data abstractions
5: Concurrency primitives
6: Generic server processes
7: Building a concurrent system
8: Fault-tolerance basics
9: Isolating error effects
10: Beyond GenServer
11: Working with components
12: Building a distributed system
13: Running the system