ElixirConf 2016 - Building Umbrella Project by Wojtek Mach

Wojtek Mach explains how to use Elixir's umbrella projects to break down large codebases into manageable, independent applications.

Building Umbrella Project by Wojtek Mach One of the many goals that both Elixir & Phoenix share is developer’s productivity. There can be two aspects of productivity: short-term and long-term. In this talk we’ll explore how using Elixir’s umbrella project feature can help with long-term productivity when working with potentially large codebases. As a example we’ll walk through building an imaginary system: Acme Bank. We will see how we can break up this system into a collection of smaller applications, each of which has a well defined boundary, domain model, set of responsibilities, and can be worked on independently. We’ll compare this approach to microservices-based architecture which is being adopted by many organizations and we’ll see if we can achieve some of the benefits without incurring some of the drawbacks.