Rubyists, have a sip of Elixir!
summary
Elixir on the Erlang VM gets demonstrated with concrete tooling — IEx and mix, the pipe operator, immutable data and pattern‑matched messages — and real concurrency primitives: spawn and Task.await, processes with PIDs, supervisors that restart workers. A tiny HTTP load tester called blitzy is built, run distributedly on four nodes with 1,000 total workers (250 per node), and supervisors auto‑restart killed workers in the demo, showing OTP fault tolerance actually working.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 8:04THE Pipe OPERATOR
- 9:09A Real World EXAMPLE
- 11:48A Process COMMUNICATES
- 12:29THE Ackermann FUNCTION
- 13:39STEP 1: SPAWN A Process
- 14:00STEP 2: SEND A Message
- 21:34THE Protocol
- 25:44Tasks EXAMPLE
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