OTP Design Principles

OTP Design Principles

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The OTP Design Principles are a set of guidelines that aim to promote robust, scalable, and fault-tolerant software design in the context of the Elixir programming language. OTP (Open Telecom Platform) is a core component of Elixir and provides a framework for building concurrent, distributed, and fault-tolerant applications. These principles are based on years of experience and best practices accumulated by the Erlang community.

Concurrency

• Processes
• Message Passing
• Isolation

Fault Tolerance

• Supervision Trees
• OTP Behaviors
• Error Handling

Scalability

• Load Distribution
• Dynamic Code Loading
• Distributed Computing

Extensibility

• Behaviors and Callbacks
• Application Design
• OTP Framework

For a comprehensive understanding of OTP Design Principles, it is recommended to explore the following articles:

• Processes and Concurrency in Elixir
• Supervisors and Fault Tolerance in OTP
• Scalable Application Design with OTP
• Extending Elixir Applications with OTP Behaviors