Adopting Elixir

Wrapping Up

This area, called DevOps, could be a book of its own. It’s easy to skip these important lessons as you adopt Elixir, but a little time spent with these tools can save you considerable effort as your system starts to grow. Erlang has a wonderful reliability and scalability history, owed in part to strong investments in DevOps.

In this chapter, we took the next step in your journey toward preparing your system for production. Our logging discussions showed you how to make the best out of the Elixir Logger, limiting logging to warnings and errors. We took a step-by-step tour through log customization, including custom formatters and back ends.

Then, we moved into tracing tools that can give you a good overview of what’s happening in ...