Designing Elixir Systems With Otp

Designing Elixir Systems with OTP

Intermediate

149 Lessons

55h

Certificate of Completion

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Explanations

Explanations

This course includes

86 Playgrounds

10 Quizzes

73 Illustrations

This course includes

86 Playgrounds

10 Quizzes

73 Illustrations

Course Overview

The Open Telecom Platform (OTP) is a process-oriented design environment that Elixir inherits from Erlang, the VM in which Elixir executes. This process-oriented design and communication framework make programming in Elixir a unique challenge. In this course, you’ll learn about the design considerations needed to build and design Elixir projects effectively. You’ll learn in detail about the Erlang virtual machine and the project components. You’ll review Elixir data types to identify the correct data layer...Show More

What You'll Learn

Strong understanding of the Open Telecom Platform (OTP) design environment

Working knowledge of the various layers of Elixir built using OTP

Deep familiarity with Elixir’s different data types, their pros, cons, and applications

Hands-on experience with best practices for coding in Elixir

Hands-on experience leveraging OTP GenServers in your application design

Hands-on experience testing Elixir projects with a variety of testing techniques

Course Content

1

Building Our Project in Layers

Who Should Take this Course and Why?

Introduction to Building Projects

Reimagining Design Choices

Choosing Our Layers Thinking Before We Start Beginning with the Right Datatypes Creating a Mix project Building Our Functional Core Establishing Our Boundaries OTP, State, and the Functional Core Testing Our Code Planning Our Lifecycle Invoking Our Workers Summary: Building Our Project in Layers Quiz: Layering System for Designing Applications in Elixir

2

Knowing Our Elixir Datatypes

Introduction to Datatypes Primitive Types Lists Streams Maps and Structs Uses of Maps Map Traps Strings String Representation in Elixir Tuples Functions as Data When to Leave Elixir Summary: Knowing Our Elixir Datatypes Quiz: Data Types that Underpin Elixir

3

Starting With the Right Data Layer

Introduction to the Data Layer Access Patterns Shape Data Structures A Different Approach Immutability Drives Everything Functional Data Structures Creating Our Mastery Project Identifying the Data of Our Project Identifying the Data of Our Project—Continued Summary: Starting with the Right Data Layer Quiz: Data Layers in Elixir

4

Building Our Functional Core

Introduction to Our Functional Core Organize Core Functions by Purpose Commencing Our Quizzes Functions are Data Naming Concepts with Functions Composing a Quiz from Functions Building Single Purpose Functions Building at a Single Level of Abstraction Moving Our Tokens Through Transformations Keeping the Left Margin Skinny Trying Out the Core Summary: Building Our Functional Core Quiz: Building Functional Cores

5

Testing Our Core

Introduction to Writing Tests Simplifying Tests with Common Setup Functions Improving the ExUnit Infrastructure Providing Test Data with Fixtures Building Our Quizzes Using Fixture Functions Directly Prime Tests with Named Setups Applying Named Setup Functions to Our Tests Making Tests Repeatable Making Tests Repeatable—Continued Composing Within Tests Testing Our Quiz Taking Tests Beyond the Elixir Base Summary: Testing Our Core Quiz: Tests for the Functional Core

6

Isolating Process Machinery in a Boundary

23 Lessons

7

Customizing Our Lifecycle

17 Lessons

8

Invoking Our Workers

13 Lessons

9

Assembling Our Components

17 Lessons

10

Testing the Boundary

12 Lessons

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