November 12, 2022

Transitioning from Serverless to Phoenix with Elixir

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Transitioning from Serverless to Phoenix with Elixir

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Phoenix Framework

Erik Guzman highlights the limitations of serverless architecture and Firebase Firestore, including vendor lock-in, cold starts, inefficient scaling, and unpredictable costs. Through his talk, he advocates for Elixir and Phoenix as alternatives capable of addressing these issues. Demonstrating with a live demo, he guides conference attendees through migrating a NodeJS Serverless application to a Phoenix app with a PostgreSQL database, emphasizing no downtime during the migration. His journey includes escaping the 'microservice zoo', ensuring consistent database costs, leveraging relational databases, and utilizing the Phoenix framework for its performance and scalability.

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