[pmarreck]

I read Dave Thomas' book cover-to-cover like some kind of legitimate nerd :) It was very good.

For understanding genservers there's The Little Elixir and OTP Guidebook, as well.

In my case I experimented with it for at least a year before I decided to jump in, my "experiments" are here: https://github.com/pmarreck/elixir-snippets (I tend to use single-file dev for exploring simple ideas; this is not a general pattern used in the community or anything, it's just something I discovered I could get by doing)