Dedication

To all the great Erlangers, many of whom we call friends, that we have met along the way. May this book put an end to the long hard slog through internet docs that we had to endure to learn OTP.

Brief Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About This Book

Introduction

1. Getting past pure Erlang: the OTP basics

Chapter 1. The Erlang/OTP platform

Chapter 2. Erlang language essentials

Chapter 3. Writing a TCP-based RPC service

Chapter 4. OTP applications and supervision

Chapter 5. Using the main graphical introspection tools

2. Building a production system

Chapter 6. Implementing a caching system

Chapter 7. Logging and event handling the Erlang/OTP way

Chapter 8. Introducing distributed Erlang/OTP

Chapter 9. Adding distribution to the cache with Mnesia

Chapter 10. Packaging, services, and deployment

3. Integrating and refining

Chapter 11. Adding an HTTP interface to the cache

Chapter 12. Integrating with foreign code using ports and NIFs

Chapter 13. Communication between Erlang and Java via Jinterface

Chapter 14. Optimization and performance

Appendix A. Installing Erlang

Appendix B. Lists and referential transparency

Index

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Listings

Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About This Book

Introduction

1. Getting past pure Erlang: the OTP basics

Chapter 1. The Erlang/OTP platform

1.1. Concurrent programming with processes

Foreword