Learn and understand Erlang and Elixir and develop a working knowledge of the concepts of
functional programming that underpin them. This book takes the author's experience of taking on
a project that required functional programming and real-time systems breaks it down and
organizes it. You will get the necessary knowledge about differences to the languages you know
where to start and where to go next. Have you been told by your customer or manager that they
heard good things about Erlang you should use it for the next project? Never had to deal with
functional programming or real-time systems? In 2014 the author Wolfgang Loder developed a
repository for digital assets that had to deliver those assets in binary form quickly and
reliably being able to deal with at least hundreds of requests per second. Since he could
decide the architecture and software stack of the solution he immediately thought of Erlang
and its libraries and started to evaluate this option. It was not long after that he discovered
Elixir which sits on top of the Erlang virtual machine and has features more palatable for
non-functional programmers although it is a functional programming language itself. Erlang and
Elixir for Imperative Programmers gives you a basis for deciding whether the effort is viable
for your next project. This book is partly a tale of the author's own experience and partly a
description of the bigger and more subtle differences between Erlang Elixir and languages such
as C++ Java and C#. What You'll Learn Discover functional programming Erlang and Elixir
Work on service design and service features Set up your environment: deployment development
and production Implement the service including public interface asset processing and
deployment Use the patterns and concepts found in Erlang including type creation concepts and
code structuring. Who This Book Is For Experienced and savvy programmers coders and
developers new to Erlang and Elixir.
