Umbrella Projects
Understand the concept of umbrella projects in Elixir and learn how they provide a structured alternative to monoliths and service-oriented architectures. This lesson helps you grasp how to break large applications into modular, manageable parts that improve maintainability, testing, and deployment while handling dependencies effectively.
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Somewhere between monoliths and services
Over time, we’ve come to understand that clean lines between independent services make more maintainable software. Think about using modules to organize code. Beginning programmers often throw all functions into a single module. More experienced programmers learn to group related functions into modules, better defining the responsibilities of each. Modules improve even more when we take the time to define which functions are private and which are public because that practice better defines a module’s API and helps control the interactions between modules.
Breaking our applications into well-defined modules leads to code that’s easier to understand, test, and maintain. Umbrella projects work in the same way. A monolith is like the first few apps we built as programmers, with all of the functions in the same place. An ...