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This is my Journal for readings on Designing Elixir Systems with OTP.
Will post chapter 01 tomorrow! Stay tuned!
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Nice one TT! Another book I am interested in reading at some point! 
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Chapter 01
Concepts / RE-Thinks:
DFTwBLWB : Do Fun things with Big Loud Worker Bees - acronym to think about layering application.
DFT = for building blocks of project
BLWB = for letting components work together.
Why layers?
- Testing each component with SIMILAR functions together (because they are grouped together! )
- Healing - supervisors
- the concept is (called
lifecycle) as simple as turn-off the TV and restart tofixit! - So, shut down CLEANLY (note,emphasis)!
- the concept is (called
Managing state :
- recursion and message passing to manage state.
- This is new! = message passing is usually an advanced concept and not ‘generally’ used to manage state, unless - Elixir or MVC model.
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Chapter 02 : Know Your Elixir Datatypes
Types and pro-cons
| DataType | Properties | Pro | Cons |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atoms | are integer + constant + NOT garbage collected | use = name concepts + constant tables type lookup | NOT convert user-input to atom |
| Arrays = NOT in Elixir! | - | random access is cheap + traversing O(n) + | |
| Lists | NOT arrays! + singly linked-lists + | pattern matching on head is O(1) | Appending at END of lists or LARGE lists |
| Maps | random access O(log n) => useful for heavily edited data | use MapSet when only Keys (uniqueness) | |
| Strings | are binaries => efficiently stored + copy is a FULL copy (unlike lists) | DO NOT LET processes hold references to long string => may cause memory leaks + NOT use long strings for storing info + DONT concatenate | |
| Tuples | fixed length data structure | use for tagging data + read chunks of data like csv | slow append => don’t edit (if need to, use Maps) |
| Functions | send function to data, NOT data to function | ||
| PATTERN matching | allows multiple dimension inheritance (sort of) => better than inheritance!! |
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