Creating a Multi-tenant Application with Phoenix and Elixir

The article begins by discussing the suitability of Elixir and the Phoenix framework for building scalable and interactive apps. The author, Aestimo Kirina, outlines the process for creating a multi-tenant web application using Phoenix. Multi-tenancy, which allows separate users or accounts to operate within the same application and database infrastructure while keeping their data isolated, is a key feature of the application. The author suggests using the 'shared database with shared schema' strategy for multi-tenancy, which is suitable for applications with low-to-medium traffic. The tutorial goes on to detail the prerequisites, including the need for Elixir and Phoenix installed on the development machine, and PostgreSQL as the default database. Readers are guided through setting up the Phoenix project, implementing multi-tenancy, generating the account context, and building a user context along with authentication using the Pow library. The relationship between the User and Account schemas is established, and a custom private function is introduced to create an account upon user registration. The article is the first in a series, where upcoming parts will cover adding link resources, custom Ecto types, and handling link redirections and views.