OTP for Elixir Programmers

Delve into the inner workings of building applications utilizing OTP behaviors. Discover the robust abstractions required to construct fault-tolerant backend systems capable of enduring for years and accommodating billions of users. Throughout the session, ample time will be dedicated to hands-on labs, allowing you to refine your skills and apply theoretical knowledge into practical scenarios. Approximately half of the class will involve lab work or coding sessions conducted alongside your instructor.

Objectives

• Have a deeper understanding of how to architect back-end systems and micro-services that you can access and use from Phoenix.
• Learn why we need behaviours such as Generic Servers, Generic State Machines and others, when to use them, and how to integrate them into supervision trees.
• Get the knowledge about how to deal with load issues applying some techniques like pooling, circuit breakers or producer/consumer solutions.
• Get a deeper understanding about how an Application works and how to create them and work together with others.

Covers the following topics

• ETS (a Redis in your beam)
• Behaviours
• Supervision
• Generic Servers
• Task & Agents
• Generic State Machines
• GenStage
• Applications (and the use of Observer)
• System Principles & Release Handling
• Release Handling

Why you should attend this course

• Helps you get over the hurdle of learning how to build systems with OTP
• Allows you to avoid the pitfalls and borderline cases handled in its libraries
• A cost effective approach to increasing productivity whilst reducing mistakes
• Allows you to design and develop systems using the globally recognised Erlang approach