Transforming Legacy Systems to Elixir Incrementally

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Transforming Legacy Systems to Elixir Incrementally
In 2023, the team embarked on a journey to modernize their outdated software, which they felt was stuck in the past. They adopted Elixir to facilitate this transformation, emphasizing a gradual approach that integrates into their daily operations. The talk covers various challenges, such as ensuring communication between old and new systems, embracing functional programming, utilizing Ecto for existing data, and managing transitions smoothly without disrupting user experience. They also mention using the strangler fig pattern to iteratively improve a specific feature from its former outdated state to a modern solution.

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