The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook by Benjamin Tan Wei Hao

The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook by Benjamin Tan Wei Hao

DESCRIPTION Elixir is a functional programming language built on the Erlang virtual machine. It combines the productivity and expressivity of Ruby with the concurrency and fault-tolerance of Erlang. Elixir makes full use of Erlang's powerful OTP library, which many developers consider the source of Erlang's greatness, so programmers can have mature, professional-quality functionality right out of the gate. Elixir's support for functional programming makes it a great choice for highly distributed event-driven applications like IoT systems. The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook gets readers programming applications with Elixir and OTP. First, it offers a quick overview of the Elixir language syntax, along with just enough functional programming to use it effectively. Then, it dives straight into OTP and shows how it helps build scalable, fault-tolerant, and distributed applications through several fun examples. Readers will rediscover the joy of programming with Elixir and remember what it feels like to be a beginner again.   KEY FEATURES  Hand-on guide with fun examples  Gets readers building programs quickly  Brings back the joy of programming   AUDIENCE Written for readers comfortable with a standard programming language like Ruby, Java, or Python. Experience with Erlang or another functional programming language is helpful.   ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY There is now a huge interest in functional programming languages such as Scala, Clojure, F#, Erlang and Haskell. Part of this reason is that these languages are better suited to exploit multi-core processors. Elixir is a functional programming language built on the Erlang virtual machine. It combines the productivity and expressivity of Ruby with the concurrency and fault-tolerance of Erlang.

Benjamin Tan Wei Hao works for Neo Innovation as a software engineer. He is constantly attempting to catch up on his ever-growing reading list, as he is terrified of becoming irrelevant. He's given talks about Ruby and Elixir at meetings and conferences. Benjamin Tan writes a blog at benjamintan.io.

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ISBN 13	9781633430112
ISBN 10	1633430111
Title	The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook
Author	Benjamin Tan Wei Hao
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Manning Publications
Year published	2017-02-16
Number of pages	296
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