How Elixir is driving Australian product innovation

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Vamp migrates from Rails to Elixir across three platform versions, now running an Elixir application server with React/GraphQL front ends, a 12-person company with four Elixir engineers. Built real-time chat with Phoenix channels, moved to Absinthe GraphQL delivering requests ~2x faster and home-page payloads ~7x smaller than the legacy JSON API, and handles integrations using an Erlang SOAP bridge for Google Ads plus a contributed Campaign Monitor Elixir client. Background jobs use GenServer/Tasks/Agents instead of external queues; Chat 2.0 explores GraphQL subscriptions.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 4:29Elixir & Product Innovation
3. 5:35Elixir & Vamp
4. 6:22Elixir a Vamp
5. 7:20GraphQL with Absinthe
6. 10:31Integrations
7. 11:29Google Ads
8. 14:47Campaign Monitor
9. 21:07Recruitment
10. 23:12Growing the community

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