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Northwind Elixir Traders (PragProg)

Immersive, project-based adventure that reimagines the classic Northwind database.

Isaak Tsalicoglou @waseigo

Built for the curious, this isn’t your average programming book—it’s nearly 500 pages of hands-on mentorship beyond coding, fusing core skills in Elixir, Ecto, and SQLite with business experience and R&D tenacity. Think of it as a $500 course distilled into one powerhouse resource, with tons of learning-by-doing, in a single project. Acquire hard skills in Elixir and database modeling with Ecto’s migrations, changesets, and more, re-imagining a classic database that millions around the world have used before for learning. By fearlessly ditching the “happy path”, this immersive, exploratory, memorable, project-based tutorial helps you confidently tackle real-world projects with Elixir and Ecto.

Built for the curious, Northwind Elixir Traders isn’t your typical programming tutorial. This immersive, project-based adventure reimagines the classic Northwind database, guiding you through Ecto’s migrations, changesets, and queries to model data with real-world edge. Ditching the “happy path,” it’s one ambitious journey—crafting a schema step by step, wrestling with SQLite’s quirks, and automating bulk imports, all while sharpening Elixir skills via side-quests like refactoring and systematic problem-solving. Drawing from the author’s R&D and B2B equipment-trading experience, it’s nearly 500 pages of hands-on mentorship—think Elixir gym crossed with an engineer’s playground.

You’ll transform an Entity Relationship Diagram into code, tame messy data, and unearth insights with queries both simple and complex. It’s not about exhausting Ecto’s every nook; it’s about grokking the essentials through practice, fearless experimentation, and diving into docs when things don’t work according to intuition or expectation. SQLite spices up the challenge, but the skills you’ll build also apply to working with PostgreSQL. Sprinkled with mini-essays from the author’s experience, it builds a gritty mindset to confidently tackle real-world projects—no copy-paste prayers needed. For Elixir newcomers, database dabblers, or those looking to build the data foundation of their Phoenix LiveView app, this is a speed-run in upskilling, wrapped in an enjoyable and unforgettable exploration.

This work was written and produced entirely by the author. We are proud to be distributing it.


Isaak Tsalicoglou is a mechanical engineer, management consultant, and software engineer. After a corporate decade in Machine Learning in turbocharger R&D, development processes, and product management of portable radar devices, since 2020 he has been managing SaaS and B2B trading businesses in Greece, and developing open-source and commercial software in Elixir, Python, Go, PHP, and NextJS.


Full details: Northwind Elixir Traders: Learn Elixir and database modeling with Ecto and SQLite, all in one project by Isaak Tsalicoglou


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AstonJ

AstonJ

Congrats on getting distribution through PragProg @waseigo :023:

There’s been a lot of interest in this book over on the Elixir Forum so I’m sure it will be a popular addition to the PragProg family! :icon_biggrin:

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