“Book Descriptions: Did you try turning it off and on again? The same approach that works for your household appliances can work with your software. Elixir and Erlang systems can spawn applications with even hundreds of thousands of processes without skipping a beat and perhaps the most important feature in either of these languages is OTP.
OTP is a set of libraries and APIs that enable applications with extraordinary reliability and scalability through concurrency. In the next four releases, we’ll cover the main two abstractions that make up OTP: the boundary and lifecycle layers.” DRIVE