Advanced Elixir and OTP (Self-published / Packt)

kokolegorille

Hello everyone,

I just find a new course that might interest some people. It was just published a few days ago.

I am not related in any way to packt publishing, nor I want to spam the forum. But the offer is now available for less than 5 Euros (96% reduction). Take a look if You are interested

Merry christmas and happy new year.

By João Gonçalves

Elixir is a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications. Elixir leverages the Erlang VM, known for running low-latency, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems, while also being successfully used in web development and the embedded software domain.

In this course, we delve into more advanced features of the Elixir language. We explore the concurrent aspects of the language, how to manipulate complex data structures efficiently, meta programming, and OTP.

By the end of this course, you’ll have learned advanced topics on the Elixir language and OTP, as well as how to apply them to build robust modern applications.

Style and Approach

This comprehensive, up-to-date video will show you the fundamental features of Elixir, and is accompanied by illustrative examples to build scalable applications.

What You Will Learn

Manipulating and combining complex data structures

Creating modular software that’s easy to change and evolve

Using processes to scale and distribute your applications

Storing complex data in table form, accessible with powerful routines

Extending the base language with your own constructs and metaprogramming

Using OTP and its behaviour suite to create robust applications

Monitoring your application using the Elixir toolset

Authors

João Gonçalves is a professional software engineer with over 7 years’ experience in various areas of software development, from banking and telco software to embedded systems and web development. He has recently discovered and developed a passion for functional programming and finds Elixir a very enjoyable language to use.

Link: https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/advanced-elixir-and-otp-video

The author also has an older course called Getting Started with Elixir: https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/getting-started-elixir-video

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AstonJ

If anyone gets this course can you please let us know what you think of it? Does it cover any topics not already covered in any of the books? Does the author talk about methodologies and/or how they go about building software in Elixir? Is the course easy to follow?

Plus anything else you think is worth mentioning. Thanks

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WuhKuh

Alright, here goes. I thought I couldn’t go wrong for €5,20 - so I bought the package.

The average video has a length of 4-5 minutes, which is OK for courses, but not if you only have 19 videos with at least a minute of introduction for every video. Very few examples are given with little edge cases, best practices or important considerations.

Having that said, OTP is covered - it’s basically what’s on the elixir-lang website. But less. Making a card deck shuffler is not what I would’ve expected from a course that is advertising “illustrative examples to build scalable applications”.
I didn’t mention monitoring is not covered, despite that being mentioned in the pitch as well.

In short: not even worthy of the title ‘beginner course’ given how little content it has. It could somewhat be expected given the price. If it shoots up to its full price (a staggering €144) one could be glad if this post was read prior to clicking the ‘order’ button.

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AstonJ

Thanks for the review @WuhKuh - I’m beginning to think Packt is a little like Udemy, where they are essentially a platform for those who want to sell their ‘self-published’ content (i.e. not professionally edited in the same sense that books and material is edited at top tech publishers such as PragProg and Manning).

I wonder if we need to reflect this in the title, or perhaps have a single thread for "Courses on Packt’ or ‘Courses on Udemy’ etc (as there seems to be quite a few of them)…

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gon782

I’ll second what @WuhKuh said: It’s very bare bones and everything is super short. I suspected it would be because I checked out the same publisher’s videos on Redis and I thought they were extremely short and even less informative than the docs pages for Redis. It’s much the same in this example, to be honest. The very low price was oddly fitting for this series.

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