Do Fun Things with Big, Loud Worker-Bees
We’ve addressed all of the major concepts in our mental framework. You can remember them all with the sentence above. The sentence is a mental mnemonic for data, functions, tests, boundaries, lifecycle, and workers.
Look. We know not every program needs every one of these layers. For example, if you just need a couple of temperature functions and you try to create all of these layers, your project is going to stink. Not all components need all of these layers, but if you teach yourself to think in these terms, you’ll understand exactly how to think about Elixir’s development.
Elixir is probably different from languages you have used before. It is functional, with great language features to support concurrency, ...
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