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Elixir Programming with AI: A Complete Beginner's Guide to Elixir, Functional Programming, Distributed Systems, and AI-Powered Applications
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 30 2026
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Discord serves millions of concurrent users with it. Pinterest relies on it for notification infrastructure. PagerDuty trusts it for real-time alerting. Elixir - built on the legendary Erlang BEAM virtual machine - is the language purpose-built for the distributed, real-time, AI-driven world of 2026. Elixir Programming with AI is your complete guide to mastering it, from your very first function to building five production-grade distributed applications.
Where other languages bolt concurrency on as an afterthought, concurrency is Elixir's foundation. This book teaches you to think in processes, supervise failures gracefully, and build systems that stay up - then connects all of that power to modern AI APIs so your backends become genuinely intelligent.
What You'll Learn:- Functional programming fundamentals: immutability, pattern matching, and data transformation
- Elixir's process model, message passing, and lightweight concurrency
- OTP fundamentals: GenServers, Supervisors, and fault-tolerant application design
- Building real-time web applications with the Phoenix Framework and Phoenix Channels
- Database integration with Ecto, background jobs, and task processing
- Distributed systems design, deployment, and production observability
- Integrating OpenAI and LLM APIs into Elixir backends
- Prompt engineering for distributed and streaming AI workloads
- Semantic search, vector database concepts, and AI-assisted automation workflows
- Building intelligent real-time platforms that scale to millions of connections
37 Chapters. Phoenix. OTP. AI-Powered.
Structured across four progressive parts - Elixir Foundations, Intermediate & Advanced Elixir, AI & Modern Development, and Real-World Projects - the book builds systematically from syntax to production architecture. Six appendices give you instant reference for Elixir syntax, OTP patterns, Phoenix and Ecto commands, AI integration checklists, and deployment playbooks.
By the end you will have built a real-time chat application, an AI-powered messaging platform, a distributed monitoring system, a smart analytics dashboard, and an AI-assisted notification platform - all in Elixir.
Perfect For:- Beginners drawn to functional programming who want a practical, project-based approach
- Python, Ruby, or Node.js developers moving to a more scalable backend language
- Backend engineers building real-time, chat, IoT, or high-concurrency systems
- Architects designing distributed or fault-tolerant microservice platforms
- Developers who want to integrate AI streaming and LLM APIs into robust backend systems
Nine nines of uptime. Millions of concurrent processes. AI-powered. Start building with Elixir today.
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