Brilliant book. The book demonstrates clearly how Erlang works and how it's a simple language with simple primitives to handle things that other languages struggle with.
After an introduction to how to do things sequentially we're then ushered into how the primitives for concurrency work and what they enable, but also what they mean in terms of error handling and how you will need to structure your networks of processes in order to make your system robust.
When we're comfortable with the concurrency primitives and how to handle them comes a part about how to interface with external resources and how this is typically (ideally) done in Erlang. A SHOUTcast server is demonstrated before moving on how to interface with websockets; a very powerful chapter demonstrating the simplicity of how Erlang can communicate with an external process.
When we're done with the multitude of ways you can use websockets we jump straight into data handling; ETS- and DETS-tables. This flows into a chapter about the Mnesia database.
After a chapter about debugging and tracing (which is quite unique in Erlang) we are introduced to OTP, the Open Telecom Platform ("The name is actually misleading, because OTP is far more general tan you might think", indeed). After a good introduction to how the generic server module is structured and created (introducing callbacks and how they work) we're then introduced to how to make a system using OTP.
At this point, one might be inclined to put the book down and that would be fine, but to close the book out there are several chapters on useful idioms, what to aim for in terms of how to interface with external processes, using external dependencies and perhaps most importantly what to think about when you're trying to use multiple cores effectively.
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