Elixir-powered Low-income Animal Shelter Support: an Experience Report from Conception(…)
summary
A Phoenix web app built with Elixir, Ecto and Postgres unifies adoption, foster and expense workflows that used to live as messy Excel pages; it implements Elixir/Phoenix + LiveView and REST API, passes unit and LiveView tests, and shows unexpectedly good small-load performance in benchmarks. A single developer produces the working system in about three months, deploys it on the Gigalixir free tier, meets the shelter’s functional needs, keeps costs effectively zero, and receives user approval though wider production use is still pending.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:10Shelter challenges
- 3:23Technical requirements
- 6:56Architecture and Phoenix
- 10:12UI and real-time features
- 12:47Testing in Elixir
- 15:20Deployment and hosting
- 17:10Results and outcomes
- 19:21Q&A
