Elixir 1.3
Elixir 1.3
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Introduction to Mix

Introduction to Mix

In this guide, we will learn how to build a complete Elixir application, with its own supervision tree, configuration, tests and more.

The application works as a distributed key-value store. We are going to organize key-value pairs into buckets and distribute those buckets across multiple nodes. We will also build a simple client that allows us to connect to any of those nodes and send requests such as:

CREATE shopping
OK

PUT shopping milk 1
OK

PUT shopping eggs 3
OK

GET shopping milk
1
OK

DELETE shopping eggs
OK

In order to build our key-value application, we are going to use three main tools:

  • OTP (Open Telecom Platform) is a set of libraries that ships with Erlang. Erlang developers use OTP to build robust, fault-tolerant applications. In this chapter we will explore how many aspects from OTP integrate with Elix