To Umbrella or not to Umbrella - EMx 162

In this episode the panel is picking up an often discussed topic in the Elixir community: umbrella projects and possible alternatives. They go over what an umbrella project actually is and their experiences with them. Based on this they go over the trade-offs you better know about, restrictions which might come back to bite you and how possible alternatives - like a monolithic app, “poncho” projects, or separate services - fare up against umbrella projects. In the end they also reflect on what has been said and give their opinions on how they’d built a complex greenfield project today. Sponsors Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/) Coaching | Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/coaching) Links Umbrella projects (Elixir’s official website) (https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/mix-otp/dependencies-and-umbrella-projects.html) Poncho Projects (Blog post) (https://embedded-elixir.com/post/2017-05-19-poncho-projects/) Dave Thomas: Keynote (Video) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U7cLUygMeI) DDD, Hexagonal, Onion, Clean, CQRS, … How I put it all together (Blog post) (https://herbertograca.com/2017/11/16/explicit-architecture-01-ddd-hexagonal-onion-clean-cqrs-how-i-put-it-all-together/) Picks Adi- Microservices.io (https://microservices.io/) Sascha- Domain-Driven Design Distilled (Book) (https://www.amazon.com/Domain-Driven-Design-Distilled-Vaughn-Vernon/dp/0134434420)