Modern books about Elixir, functional programming, Phoenix, OTP?

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Hey everybody,
I scanned the forum for an hour or so and couldn’t help but notice that various offerings in the books department seem little outdated – f.ex. the “Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook” seems to cover Elixir 1.2 and 1.3 which in my eyes is not ideal (supervisor / worker configuration has changed since).

As of the beginning of 2019, what would everybody recommend on these topics?

  • Functional programming + Elixir
  • Phoenix (+ Presence, + Sockets)
  • OTP itself; could be Erlang but ideally I’d prefer Elixir
  • Event sourcing, CQRS, command patterns
  • Bonus points for something like Okasaki’s book about purely functional data structures but not working with C++ if possible (we’re looking to apply that knowledge in immutable FP languages after all).

I’m looking to become a bit more formally and more widely practically educated and your suggestions will be of great help.

Thanks.

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:waving_hand:

Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP :+1::smiling_cat_with_heart_eyes:

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+1 for Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP :slight_smile:

  • Okasaki

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf

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Programming Phoenix 1.4, eBook just released, print coming 2/19: Search

Elixir in Action, Second Edition: Elixir in Action, Second Edition - Saša Jurić
Ready as of 1/16

The latter half of the book covers “thinking in OTP” well

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For Phoenix Presence, there’s an entire chapter in “Phoenix Web Development”, from Packt.

https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/phoenix-web-development

I’m about halfway through that book, and it’s definitely an intermediate book, pretty solid and I’ve learned a good deal.

Also, Pragmatic Studio has their “Unpacked Bingo” course, which uses phoenix and presence. I haven’t started watching it yet - it’s next on my list.

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@dimitarvp List of books -

For Elixir - Programming Elixir 1.6 (Search)
For Phoenix - Programming Phoenix 1.4 (Search)
For OTP - The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook (The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook - Benjamin Tan Wei Hao)
and one more good one -
Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix (Search)

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For me the combo would be “Programming Phoenix 1.4” and “Elixir in Action”.