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Designing Elixir Systems With OTP
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Designing Elixir Systems With OTP

by James Edward Gray, Bruce A. Tate
December 2019
Intermediate to advanced
248 pages
5h 34m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Assemble Your Components

In this chapter we showed how components work together. Starting a project with abstract structs rather than immediately into persistence give us some tangible benefits. The biggest one was having a bigger functional core and a smaller boundary. Building in persistence at that point allowed us to reduce coupling between the base OTP component and the database schema. To illustrate that benefit, we have implemented persistence as a straight path dependency.

Building MasteryPersistence with path dependencies let us isolate implementations into separate projects without the additional ceremony of maintaining separate repositories. Git and Hex dependencies offer their own trade-offs, providing reduced coupling at the cost ...

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