Elixir for Engineers: Build Fault-Tolerant Systems with Functional Power and Erlang Roots

By Caden Hawthorne

Engineered for Resilience. Designed with Functional Elegance.

Elixir for Engineers is your hands-on guide to mastering Elixir - the modern, functional programming language built on the rock-solid Erlang VM (BEAM). Known for fault tolerance, concurrency, and distributed systems, Elixir is trusted in industries where uptime is critical and performance matters.

This book shows software engineers how to harness the power of functional programming, build reliable and scalable applications, and design systems that don't crash under pressure. From OTP basics to real-world architecture patterns, this guide is built for engineers solving real production challenges.

⚙️ What You'll Learn:

✅ Elixir syntax, pipelines, pattern matching, and immutability
✅ Functional programming concepts in an engineer's context
✅ Building processes with spawn, receive, and GenServer
✅ OTP behaviors: Supervisors, Applications, and Task modules
✅ Managing state in a concurrent environment
✅ Fault-tolerance and recovery with supervision trees
✅ Distributed applications using BEAM's native messaging
✅ Elixir mix tool, testing with ExUnit, and documentation practices
✅ Deployment strategies and hot code upgrades
✅ Real-world use cases in telecom, finance, IoT, and scalable web apps

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FG26PXM8
• ISBN13: 9798289448385
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"