dimitarvp
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the forum for an hour or so and couldn’t help but notice that various offerings in the books department seem little outdated – f.ex.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
Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP
kokolegorille
+1 for Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf
axelson
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
sandymatt
For Phoenix Presence, there’s an entire chapter in “Phoenix Web Development”, from Packt.
https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/phoenix-web-development
I’m about halfway through that book, and it’s definitely an intermediate book, pretty solid and I’ve learned a good deal.
Also, Pragmatic Studio has their “Unpacked Bingo” course, which uses phoenix and presence. I haven’t started watching it yet - it’s next on my list.
meraj_enigma
@dimitarvp List of books -
For Elixir - Programming Elixir 1.6 (Search)
For Phoenix - Programming Phoenix 1.4 (Search)
For OTP - The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook (The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook - Benjamin Tan Wei Hao)
and one more good one -
Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix (Search)
LostKobrakai
For me the combo would be “Programming Phoenix 1.4” and “Elixir in Action”.