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Adopting Elixir
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Adopting Elixir

by Ben Marx, Bruce Tate, Jose Valim
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
244 pages
6h 10m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Umbrella Projects: Between Monoliths and Services

Over time, we’ve come to understand that clean lines between independent services make more maintainable software. Think about using modules to organize code. Beginning programmers often throw all functions into a single module. More experienced programmers learn to group related functions into modules, better defining the responsibilities of each. Modules improve even more when you take the time to define which functions are private and which are public because that practice better defines your module’s API, and helps you control the interactions between modules.

Breaking your applications into well-defined modules leads to code that’s easier to understand, test, and maintain. Umbrella projects ...

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