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?
tristan
Good question! I should have thought to put that in the original post
Some of the planned chapters are:
AstonJ
Thanks Tristan! I have updated the first post for you so it’s inline with our book threads and moved the thread to our Learning Resources > Books section - hope that’s ok!
slouchpie
@tristan Thanks! Very nice writing style. I have a small question about OTP at a High Level | Adopting Erlang Figure 1 - why is there a boundary around some of the “Erlang/OTP release” components?
tristan
The red boundary around applications in the OTP install is to group the applications included in the release. Not all of the OTP applications are included in the release, just those within that area.
tristan
We’ve published a few new chapters today. You’ll notice from the ToC I gave above that we are not going in order
Supervision Trees: Supervision Trees | Adopting Erlang
Hard Things to Get Right: Only the sections on unicode and time currently, SSL is still in the works Hard Things to Get Right | Adopting Erlang
Releases: Releases | Adopting Erlang
Chapters on Docker and Kubernetes are nearly ready as well as the chapter on dependencies.
tristan
The Docker chapter has been published: Docker | Adopting Erlang
Up next will be Kubernetes and a chapter on managing dependencies with rebar3.
ferd
The chapter on Dependencies has been published: Dependencies | Adopting Erlang
Get in loser, we’re going library shopping!
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!
tristan
New chapter out today on Kubernetes: Kubernetes | Adopting Erlang
There are still sections to add and I’m sure places that more details could help, I’m hoping that publishing will lead to some feedback, so please give it a read and let us know what you think :).
Note the site is in a public repo, so you can open issues if you find something confusing or missing GitHub - adoptingerlang/adoptingerlang: Adopting Erlang is an ongoing effort to gather all the resources that will help you use Erlang in a business · GitHub
We are also on Slack. You can ping me on either Erlang or Elixir Slack.