In this book, subtitled "elegant, functional programming", Jeff Hajewski sets out the case that Elixir simplifies concurrency, thanks to its beginnings inspired by Ruby's elegant syntax and built on top of the reliability of Erlang's BEAM VM.  The book takes the reader on a journey from novice to expert. By the end of the book, readers will know how to write massively concurrent software, and use this knowledge to build a realistic distributed system using gRPC, Kafka, and Postgres.

Author: Jeff Hajewski
Publisher: Remington Shaw
Date: April 2025
Pages: 318
ISBN: 978-8218628819
Print: B0F3JWDLZ5
Audience: Functional developers
Level: Introductory/Intermediate
Category: Other Languages 

Topics include:

• How to set up your environment
• Language basics
• How to leverage Elixir's concurrency primitives
• Building reliable, self-healing systems with Elixir
• Understanding OTP behaviours
• Testing
• Building distributed systems with gRPC and Kafka

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