Brandon Richey - Phoenix Web Development

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Brandon Richey is a software engineer and Elixir enthusiast who has written a large number of popular Elixir tutorials. He has been doing professional and hobby programming projects spanning topics from healthcare, personal sites, recruiting, and game development for nearly 20 years! When not programming, Brandon enjoys spending time with his family, playing (and making) video games and working on his drawings and paintings!

Atul S. Khot is a self-taught programmer and learned from reading C and C++ code. A Linux aficionado and a command-line guy at heart, Atul has dabbled in multiple languages. He is deeply interested in functional languages and massively parallel software systems. Atul speaks at software conferences, and he is a past Dr. Dobb's Jolt award judge.
He was the author of Learning functional Data Structures & Algorithms and Scala Functional Programming Patterns, both published by Packt Publishing.

LarryRohrs worked for a large financial firm as an IT professional for 25 years. Professional coding projects were focused on infrastructure in APL-derivative languages, C, and C++. As a senior manager, Larry managed a large, global, IT team responsible for collecting, verifying, organizing, and expanding key reference data available through large, distributed databases. He is currently retired and enjoys spending more time with family and hobbies.

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With Elixir and Phoenix, you build your application the right way the first way: ready to scale and ready for the increasing demands of real-time web applications.

This book will cover the bare basics of the Phoenix web framework through building a community voting application and, in the course, discuss the new structure changes introduced in Phoenix v1.3. We'll cover the initial challenges of getting started with our app, working with the generators to learn more about the structure of a standard Phoenix app. From there, we'll build our application and work with Channels, Schemas, Contexts, and even dive into more advanced topics such as working with Tasks/Async and GenServers. By the end of this book, we'll have a strong grasp of all the core fundamentals of the Phoenix framework, and we'll have built a full production-ready web application from nothing!

This is for people who have started messing around with Elixir and have enjoyed what they've seen! We'll take those skills and apply them to building a full web application. If you have some knowledge of Elixir and have experience with other web frameworks in other languages and want to see what it's like to build a web application where concurrency and performance are first-class citizens, you're in the right place!

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