Right on.
What we need are more real world books. Don’t get me wrong. I love the inspirational “Elixir is great…Elixir rocks…Elixir does x easier” books and articles, but what really really matters is how do we do REAL WORLD things in Elixir.
We need a book that talks about the hard stuff: Deployments, networks, distribution, scaling, testing, logging, metrics, and real failure. It’s nice that all the books we have tell us that we CAN do all those things, but how are companies like Bleacher Report handling these topics.
I’ve talked to Steven Proctor in the past about him and I setting up a conference here in Dallas, TX to interview real Erlang/Elixir developers that have successfully dealt with these real world issues. It would be awesome to see a book that really dove into those subjects.
Now, that being said, I’m only halfway finished with Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP. That book may have everything I said above, but I’ve got a feeling it still isn’t in depth as we SHOULD get.
It’s one thing to read some examples, and it’s another thing having someone experienced tell you, “It’s not all Rainbows and Sunshine, but don’t worry because I’m going to show you the hard things you’re going to run into and how to overcome them”.
