tristan
Adopting Erlang is a collaborative effort between myself (Tristan), Fred Hebert and Evan Vigil-McClanahan. It is an ongoing effort to gather all the resources that will help you use Erlang in a business. The booksite is divided in three sections focusing particularly on Erlang/OTP’s higher level concepts in the current open source ecosystem, how to use it in production (while setting up a pipeline for continuous development and delivery), and how to build a team when you’re starting from scratch.
The booksite is currently a work in progress, and updates will regularly be posted, aiming for a chapter per month. You can come back here to check for new material, or follow the authors on social media to get notifications, at least until we add some RSS Feed in here.
As more chapters become available we will comment on this thread with an update, however here’s what we have planned so far:
- Development
- Supervision Trees
- Dependencies
- Umbrella Projects
- Configuration
- Documentation
- Testing
- Hard Things to Get Right
- Unicode
- Time
- SSL
- Production
- Releases
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Operations
- Remote access
- Metrics
- Logging
- Tracing
- Team Building
- Who to Put on the Team
- Repository Structures
- Processes
- How to Hire
Read it online here: http://adoptingerlang.org/
Comments and fixes for the text can be made on the repository GitHub - adoptingerlang/adoptingerlang: Adopting Erlang is an ongoing effort to gather all the resources that will help you use Erlang in a business · GitHub
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AstonJ
Looks good Tristan
Do you have a rough idea of chapters or what’s coming?
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ferd
New chapter out today, on multi-App projects: why, when, and how to use them: Multi-App Projects | Adopting Erlang
It’s a short one, give it a read!
ferd
Two new chapters out today:
Both of which are probably of interest regardless of the programming language used.
ferd
The chapter on Dependencies has been published: Dependencies | Adopting Erlang
Get in loser, we’re going library shopping!
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vasilakisfil
Hi, this material is extremely useful and valuable for newcomers to erlang that have previous experience with other languages. I hope you manage to find some time to enrich the book with testing and production operations like debugging, metrics, tracing etc.
Also from Docker if you click next you go straight to team building, whereas it should be Kubernetes!