– What it was like using Elixir back in early 2019

– Motivation for using Phoenix and Elixir

– Phoenix Channels and Elixir GenServers are being used a bit

– It’s a monolithic app with mostly an API back-end using VueJS on the front-end

– Going through the process of upgrading to use Phoenix contexts

– Interesting packages in Ege’s mix file that helped him build his app

– The front-end assets are managed with Webpack, Vuetify is being used too

– Separation of concerns was the main reason for making an API back-end

– Stripe is being used to accept payments with no 3rd party Stripe library

– PostgreSQL is the primary database and it’s all hosted on Gigalixir

– The Gigalixir bill is about $200 a month including a staging environment

– The deployment process from development to production

– Offloading PDF generation to a micro-service

– Gigalixir is handling automated database backups

– UptimeRobot monitors the app and reports back if it’s down

– Getting rid of subdomains for each user account / tenant and multi-tenancy

– Moving from Timber to Logflare for application logs

– Transactional emails are sent using SendGrid

– Best tips? Having a trustworthy co-founder has been incredibly important

– Check out https://pricetable.io/ and you can email Ege directly too