The Erlanger Playbook

I am proud to announce the pre-release of The Erlanger Playbook.

The Erlanger Playbook is a book about software development using Erlang. It currently covers all areas from the conception, design, the writing of code, documentation and tests.

The book is still a work in progress. Future topics will include refactoring, debugging and tracing, benchmarking, releases, community management (for open source projects).

The following sections are currently available:

• About this book; Changelog; Future additions
• Erlang: Building blocks; Patterns
• Workflow: Think; Write; Stay productive
• Documentation: On documentation; Tutorials; User guide; Manual; README files
• Design: RESTful APIs; Lessons learned
• Code: Starting a project; Version control; Project structure; Code style; Best practices; Special processes; IOLists; The process dictionary
• Tests: On testing; Success typing analysis; Manual testing; Unit testing; Functional testing
• Selling Erlang: On persuasion; Don't let it crash

Read a preview: Special processes

The book is currently 180 pages long. The final version of the book is planned to be between 200 and 250 pages. A print version of the book will be considered once the final version gets released. The printed book is not included in the price.

This is a self-published book. The base price is 50€. All proceeds will be used to allow me to work on open source full time.

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There will be a delay between payment and sending of the book. This process is currently manual.

As the book is a pre-release, feedback is more than welcome. You can send your comments to erlanger@ this website.

The plan is to add content regularly until I run out of things to say. You will receive updates to the book for free as soon as they are available.

Huge thanks for your interest in buying this book!