Summary of Making Your Application Production Ready

What we learned so far

This area, called DevOps, could be a course of its own. It’s easy to skip these important lessons as we adopt Elixir, but a little time spent with these tools can save us considerable effort as our system starts to grow. Erlang has a wonderful reliability and scalability history, owed in part to strong investments in DevOps.

Logger, custom formatters and custom back ends

In this chapter, we took the next step in our journey toward preparing our system for production. Our logging discussions demonstrated how to make the best out of the Elixir Logger, limiting logging to warnings and errors. We took a step-by-step tour through log customization, including custom formatters and back ends.