Elixir in Action, Third Edition

This is the book on Elixir. At any stage in your Elixir career, this book will serve as a touchstone and crucial educational resource.

I've been interested in solving programming concurrency problems for a long time and discovered Elixir like may Ruby devs back in the day as something that was both familiar and foreign. While I personally gravitated to Golang, Elixir was always an interesting tool in the toolbox.Fortunately, Elixir in Action came to be and it helped with the learning journey when I started out. This third edition is a worthy update and (re)reading it was a great refresher into how this language works and how to apply its concepts to common problems.Don't be put off by a seemingly common example trope "The To Do List". The example program is easy to understand and used effectively across many chapters to build on the Elixir concepts being taught. I found Chapter 7 and 8 particularly interesting (building a concurrent system, then going further with fault tolerance).Even if you are just curious about Elixir, and learn best through reading, check this one out.

If you are needing to learn Elixir for work or you are just genuinely interested in what Elixir is and what you can accomplish by learning it, then you have come to the right place. Elixir in Action is your one stop shop for all things Elixir. You will walk away with the knowledge to implement just about any type of application you can think of. The author has done a great job explaining concepts for both veteran Elixir user's and newcomers alike.If you are looking for a comprehensive take on Elixir look no further.

I love the detail that the author goes into in explaining Elixir concepts and using real examples of running Elixir in production systems.

This was the best book on Elixir even in the previous edition when it was outdated.Contrary to other books, it's not just a re-hashing of the Elixir docs but actually shows what makes Elixir (and OTP) unique and useful.I love Elixir, it feels to me like programming from the future.

An excellent overview of Elixir's features. It's not aimed at people learning how to code for the first time, but if you already know how to code, this one book will get you ready to build your first thing in Elixir.