I learned a lot from taking the Elixir for Programmers course by Dave Thomas, and after completing I wanted to summarize some of my most important takeaways. I especially want to focus on the architecture of the hangman game he creates as an example, as well as the tools used from Erlang’s Open Telecom Platform (OTP). This course shows the power of Elixir in its ability to create highly scalable, fault-tolerant applications.