dimitarvp

dimitarvp

Modern books about Elixir, functional programming, Phoenix, OTP?

Hey everybody,
I scanned the forum for an hour or so and couldn’t help but notice that various offerings in the books department seem little outdated – f.ex. the “Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook” seems to cover Elixir 1.2 and 1.3 which in my eyes is not ideal (supervisor / worker configuration has changed since).

As of the beginning of 2019, what would everybody recommend on these topics?

  • Functional programming + Elixir
  • Phoenix (+ Presence, + Sockets)
  • OTP itself; could be Erlang but ideally I’d prefer Elixir
  • Event sourcing, CQRS, command patterns
  • Bonus points for something like Okasaki’s book about purely functional data structures but not working with C++ if possible (we’re looking to apply that knowledge in immutable FP languages after all).

I’m looking to become a bit more formally and more widely practically educated and your suggestions will be of great help.

Thanks.

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idi527

idi527

:waving_hand:

Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP :+1::smiling_cat_with_heart_eyes:

kokolegorille

kokolegorille

+1 for Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP :slight_smile:

  • Okasaki

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf

axelson

axelson

Scenic Core Team

Programming Phoenix 1.4, eBook just released, print coming 2/19: Search

Elixir in Action, Second Edition: Elixir in Action, Second Edition - Saša Jurić
Ready as of 1/16

The latter half of the book covers “thinking in OTP” well

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LostKobrakai

LostKobrakai

For me the combo would be “Programming Phoenix 1.4” and “Elixir in Action”.

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