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Real-Time Phoenix
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Real-Time Phoenix

by Stephen Bussey
March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
7h 58m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Achieving Real-Time in Elixir

Elixir is a functional programming language that enables scalable application development. Elixir is a low-ceremony language—it places an emphasis on expressive syntax that conveys the meaning of code quickly. These properties help to reduce the complexity of code and, by proxy, help to improve maintenance scalability over time.

Elixir builds on top of Erlang/OTP to provide an excellent foundation for soft real-time applications. Elixir leverages lightweight virtual machine processes, often implemented as GenServers, that allow for encapsulation and modeling of the various components of a real-time system. It’s possible to scale Elixir applications to multiple cores without any special constructs, just as it is ...

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