Buckle up your shoes and prepare to tackle the unique challenge of migrating web applications to Elixir.

Become an Elixir Professional

Elixir is a relatively new framework but has shown rapid growth due to its flexibility as a functional, concurrent, distributed programming language. In this module, we'll learn about adopting an Elixir-based technology stack for distributed web applications. Then, we'll learn high-level concepts such as staffing, code management, and legacy systems. We’ll also learn to develop our Elixir environment with a walkthrough of making a functional transition, distributing Elixir, and integrating external code. We'll wrap up the module by looking at deployment and maintenance functions, assessing performance, and finalizing the application.

Adopting Elixir for Software Engineering Leads & Managers

***[icanmakeitbetter](https://isacorp.com/icanmakeitbetter/)*** is an insight community and feedback platform with integrated surveys, live chat, focus groups, discussion forums, digital journals, ideation, and panel management.

## How did it start?

The story starts with an entrepreneur, a few slices of pizza, and a dirty napkin. See, ***icanmakeitbetter*** was a tech startup.

In 2011, Paul Janowitz was a young entrepreneur with a growing market research company and an idea. He came to understand that asking folks the best questions, even with excellent effort and world-class analysis, wouldn’t mean anything if you asked the wrong people. He met with Bruce Tate over pizza to talk about ways to automate the process of building research communities to find and engage the best customers. They brainstormed and sketched, and days later icanmakeitbetter was formed. Alas, that first napkin went into the trash because of irredeemable sauce stains.

The freshly merged company had just two programmers, and one worked his
first full year from New Zealand. They stood up a product quickly and landed a few whales to feed the company as it grew. They knew the business model would be fluid, so they chose a software stack that optimized the developer rapid-prototyping experience. Scalability could come later.

Over the next few years, the young startup tweaked its platform to home in on a business model that could better scale. They encountered several technical problems along the way. Their initial idea platform scaled easily because it was built primarily of pages that were easy to cache, and because the traffic moved to the platform organically, with a steady, equally distributed traffic load throughout the day.

# How did it start?

The story starts with an entrepreneur, a few slices of pizza, and a dirty napkin. See, ***icanmakeitbetter*** was a tech startup.

In 2011, Paul Janowitz was a young entrepreneur with a growing market research company and an idea. He came to understand that asking folks the best questions, even with excellent effort and world-class analysis, wouldn’t mean anything if you asked the wrong people. He met with Bruce Tate over pizza to talk about ways to automate the process of building research communities to find and engage the best customers. They brainstormed and sketched, and days later icanmakeitbetter was formed. Alas, that first napkin went into the trash because of irredeemable sauce stains.

Learn how icanmakeitbetter acquired Elixir for better scalability.


Three Adoption Stories

Concept: Team Building

Concept: Ensuring Code Consistency

Concept: Legacy Systems and Dependencies

Development: Making the Functional Transition

Development - Distributed Elixir

Development - Integrating with External Code

Production - Coordinating Deployments

Production - Metrics and Performance Expectations

Production - Making Your App Production Ready

Appendix

Conclusion

The Acquisition of icanmakeitbetter

About icanmakeitbetter

How did it start?

Growing the business