I just finished binge-reading Adopting Elixir by @bgmarx, @josevalim and @redrapids.
What an excellent and exceedingly practical book! It’s unlike any other programming language book I’ve read in the way that it approaches the subject. Very refreshing!
The first part of the book will help me when pitching Erlang and Elixir at work, to business people and developers alike. I’m preparing a company presentation as we speak.
As I’m still learning, some of the technical chapters were a bit too advanced for me, but it gave me a very good overview over the available tools, as well as when and how to use them.
My favourite chapters were the ones in part 3, about deployment, instrumentation, testing and debugging — Important and difficult topics which are usually left out of programming books. These chapters alone were worth the investment, although I also enjoyed most of the other chapters.
Now I know enough to feel a bit more confident about going into application development with Elixir; knowing where to go when I encounter performance- and operational challenges.
To the authors: Thank you for sharing your hard-earned knowledge.
