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Gavin M. Roy
August 04, 2016
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OTP in 15 Minutes or Less
Slides for my talk given at the Philly Elixir Meetup on the OTP part of Elixir/OTP.
Gavin M. Roy
August 04, 2016
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Transcript
OTP in 15 Minutes or Less Philly Elixir Meetup August
2016 Gavin M. Roy VP of Architecture AWeber Communications
Processes • Heart of Concurrency • Are light-weight independent tasks
• Share nothing • Communicate via message passing • Implement a basic contract
Processes • Are long lived in a message loop •
Can link to other processes • Can spawn other processes • Can Crash!
Enter OTP It’s not just what you do, it’s how
you do it
What is OTP? • The standard library that ships with
Erlang • Design principles for code structure • A core set of common patterns and behaviors
OTP Concepts • Applications • Collection of Modules • Runtime
Structure / Processes • Supervisors • Manage Processes • gen_* Behaviors • Releases
Applications • Application Resource File Defines application modules, defaults, and
required OTP applications • Application Behavior start/2 and stop/1 {application, name, [ {description, ""}, {vsn, "1"}, {registered, []}, {applications, [ kernel, stdlib ]}, {mod, {server, []}}, {env, []} ]}.
Supervisors Return a list of Child Specifications that • Defines
the process IDs and MFAs • What to do if processes crashes • How to shutdown the processes • What type of processes the children are
Supervision Tree S W S W W S S W
W W W W
gen_server - init/1 - handle_call/3 - handle_cast/2 -
handle_info/2 - terminate/2 - code_change/3
Other OTP Behaviors Built-In • gen_fsm (Deprecated) Finite State Machine
• gen_statem Event State Machine • gen_event Generic event handling behavior 3rd Party Examples • gen_leader Distributed Master/Slave topology • gen_tcp_server Generic TCP Server • gen_rpc Scalable Multi-node RPC library
Releases • Bundle Application • cli control application • Hot-code
swap upgrade steps
Questions? gmr @crad