Learn You Some Erlang For Great Good

Fred Hébert is a self-taught programmer who taught Erlang. He spent time working on a real-time bidding platform and was named Erlang User of the Year 2012, and has since joined the routing team at Heroku, building large scale production systems with Erlang. His online tutorial, Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!, is widely regarded as the best way to learn Erlang.

ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Starting OutChapter 2: ModulesChapter 3: Syntax in FunctionsChapter 4: Types (or Lack Thereof)Chapter 5: Hello Recursion!Chapter 6: Higher-Order FunctionsChapter 7: Errors and ExceptionsChapter 8: Functionally Solving ProblemsChapter 9: A Short Visit to Common Data StructuresChapter 10: The Hitchhiker's Guide to ConcurrencyChapter 11: More on MultiprocessingChapter 12: Errors and ProcessesChapter 13: Designing a Concurrent ApplicationChapter 14: An Introduction to OTPChapter 15: Rage Against the Finite-State MachinesChapter 16: Event HandlersChapter 17: Who Supervises the Supervisors?Chapter 18: Building an ApplicationChapter 19: Building Applications the OTP WayChapter 20: The Count of ApplicationsChapter 21: Release Is the WordChapter 22: Leveling Up in the Process QuestChapter 23: Buckets of SocketsChapter 24: EUnited Nations CouncilChapter 25: Bears, ETS, Beets: In-Memory NoSQL for Free!Chapter 26: DistribunomiconChapter 27: Distributed OTP ApplicationsChapter 28: Common Test for Uncommon TestsChapter 29: Mnesia and the Art of RememberingChapter 30: Type Specifications and DialyzerAfterwordOn Erlang's SyntaxColophonUpdates