Embrace Elixir

The Phoenix Framework is the cornerstone of Elixir web development. It’s fast, scalable, and real-time ready through Channels. Its standout feature, LiveView, enables rich interactive apps without heavy JavaScript, making Phoenix a central tool in the ecosystem.

Ecto is Elixir’s database library for schemas, queries, and migrations. Its composable query syntax and functional design make working with relational databases safe and ergonomic.

Broadway is designed for data pipelines. It manages concurrency, back-pressure, and integrations with systems like RabbitMQ, Kafka, and SQS, making large-scale processing reliable.

Nx (Numerical Elixir) brings numerical computing and machine learning to Elixir. With tensor support and JIT compilation backends like EXLA and Torchx, it opens new doors for scientific and ML workloads.

Define the scope: Our team will sit with you and gather information from documentation and interviews. Is this a monolith or a service-oriented architecture? How long was the development phase, and how thorough is the documentation? Which internal and external systems depend on the application? What is the timeline? bitcrowd will devise a plan that fits your needs and requirements

Filling the blind spots: Are all transitions accounted for? Which parts of the UI are currently undocumented? bitcrowd is actively developing custom tooling that extracts specifications from your legacy software, assisting us in understanding the scope of the transition.

Strategy and timescale: Based on our deep understanding of your current architecture, we’ll create a project-specific migration plan. Do we need to move slowly so that other teams can keep up? Or do we need to move fast, with only a limited time window for the the launch of your critical components?

Development: We can introduce Elixir to your product gradually, running alongside your existing systems until we’ve moved the entire legacy system over. When time is of the essence, we develop parallel migration tasks and work in multiple teams. bitcrowd developers work as one team with your own developers, ensuring that our knowledge and skill is transferred to your in-house team.

In practice, a small Elixir service often can replace a cluster of servers running another language, delivering the same features at a lower cost and with greater reliability.

Elixir applications deliver significant performance gains and scale out easily, often replacing clusters of servers with a smaller, more efficient footprint. Beyond the technology, we will focus on team enablement, helping developers who are new to functional programming to quickly become familiar with lasting good practices. We will mentor developers that are transitioning to Elixir without prior experience in functional programming.

bitcrowd has discovered that the best way to learn Elixir is to work on a real live project, while experts guard you from making mistakes. This means your team can quickly level-up their coding style, producing clean and maintainable systems. We will support your team throughout the learning process, ensuring that the transition to Elixir is perceived as a step forward, not an obstacle.

At bitcrowd, we launch around ten new projects each year. Our experienced team of Elixir developers feel at home in all kinds of scenarios.

With each client, we get to know new work environments. It gives us the chance to see our ideas play out, and learn from every time we create a new solution. With all this experience, we will help your team get on and build better products.

We offer consultancy tailored to your situation, from a team that has been building and deploying live Elixir products since 2016.

Our team will fit into your workflow, and can assess and improve parts of the process — maybe that’s code review, process improvements, or project management.

We can also help directly with development: planning & completing individual features, writing tests, and helping your developers overcome challenges in their own tasks.

If you’re excited by what we’re building and want to learn more, don’t hesitate to reach out. Drop us an email or schedule a conversation to discover how our tools can enhance your projects and streamline your workflow!