If you need to build a scalable, fault tolerant system with requirements
for high availability, discover why the Erlang/OTP platform stands out
for the breadth, depth, and consistency of its features. This hands-on
guide demonstrates how to use the Erlang programming language and its
OTP framework of reusable libraries, tools, and design principles to
develop complex commercial-grade systems that simply cannot fail.
In the first part of the book, you'll learn how to design and implement
process behaviors and supervision trees with Erlang/OTP, and bundle them
into standalone nodes. The second part addresses reliability,
scalability, and high availability in your overall system design. If
you're familiar with Erlang, this book will help you understand the
design choices and trade-offs necessary to keep your system running.
- Explore OTP's building blocks: the Erlang language, tools and
libraries collection, and its abstract principles and design rules
- Dive into the fundamentals of OTP reusable frameworks: the Erlang
process structures OTP uses for behaviors
- Understand how OTP behaviors support client-server structures, finite
state machine patterns, event handling, and runtime/code integration
- Write your own behaviors and special processes
- Use OTP's tools, techniques, and architectures to handle deployment,
monitoring, and operations
