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Adopting Elixir — by Ben Marx, José Valim, Bruce Tate (12 / 85) — Online Resources | TOC | The Acquisition of icanmakeitbetter As we were putting the finishing touches on this book, a solar eclipse crossed the United States, moving as fast as 2,400 miles per hour. Many were near the path of totality, but not quite in that magic zone…

Adopting Elixir — by Ben Marx, José Valim, Bruce Tate (1 / 85) — Table of Contents | TOC | Acknowledgments Adopting Elixir is brilliant: a practical, no-frills guide for all teams who want to use Elixir and get it right the first time. …

Adopting Elixir — by Ben Marx, José Valim, Bruce Tate (13 / 85) — Chapter 1 Three Adoption Stories | TOC | Bleacher Report Improves Performance and Reliab ility Our first story is one of acquisition. We tell this tale because acquisitions highlight the tensions between risk versus reward at the heart of every other adoption story. It starts with an entrepreneur…

Adopting Elixir — by Ben Marx, José Valim, Bruce Tate (41 / 85) — Chapter 5 Making the Functional Transition | TOC | Polymorphism Since Elixir is a functional programming language, it does not have objects. The language also has a strong focus on immutability. In Elixir we transform data rather than mutate it. Said another way: OO changes. FP copies. While…

Adopting Elixir — by Ben Marx, José Valim, Bruce Tate (20 / 85) — Chapter 2 Team Building | TOC | When Things Go Wrong Training developers for a new language is more than simply sending a few of them at a time to classes and conferences. A holistic approach is better. …

Adopting Elixir — by Ben Marx, José Valim, Bruce Tate (3 / 85) — Acknowledgments | TOC | From José: I’m eternally grateful to Dave Marks for not only hiring me at Bleacher Report but encouraging and supporting me — and our entire team — as we undertook the monumental task of moving from our legacy sytem to the new Elixir-based platform…

Adopting Elixir — by Ben Marx, José Valim, Bruce Tate (27 / 85) — Coding Standards | TOC | Documentation Functional languages depend heavily on types to determine how functions interact with one another. You can dramatically improve a function’s declaration of intent with typespecs. A typespec annotates the expected input and outputs of a function. …

Adopting Elixir — by Ben Marx, José Valim, Bruce Tate (14 / 85) — The Acquisition of icanmakeitbetter | TOC | Plataformatec Supports Early Adopters Our second story concerns migration. We tell it because adoption is tense business, and early adopters need to dream together. The story begins with a good dream, an angry clock, and a cup of coffee. You see…

Adopting Elixir — by Ben Marx, José Valim, Bruce Tate (29 / 85) — Documentation | TOC | Putting It All Together: Code Reviews In the past fifteen years, we’ve seen a tremendous growth in automated software testing. Elixir embraces this trend. …