Learn you some pattern matching for great good!

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Explains how Elixir’s match operator binds and fails with a MatchError, shows lists are strict about order/length while maps match on subsets, and demonstrates multi-clause functions, case and cond plus guards and underscore defaults. Refactors a nested-if animal.sound example into separate function heads and private helpers for food/amount, producing clearer code that rejects bad input with function clause errors and a live demo that returns expected sounds and feed strings.

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1. 0:0003:46 - Intro
2. 2:0309:28 - What makes the BEAM special?
3. 7:1611:10 - :gen_server
4. 11:1626:18 - Language Server Protocol: A quick primer
5. 22:1928:28 - Demo. We're doing it live!
6. 28:2432:13 - QnA

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