Elixir Development for High-Performance Applications

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Elixir engineering for fast, fault-tolerant applications

Elixir is built for high-performance workloads that demand speed, stability, and efficient parallel processing. Whether you’re developing real-time features or expanding backend capabilities, Curotec provides senior Elixir engineers who write clean, dependable code, keeping your platform fast and resilient.

Our areas of expertise include:

Real-time application development
Phoenix framework engineering
OTP architecture & process supervision
Process-oriented backend architecture
API & system integration
Developer augmentation & placement

Who we support

Curotec supports engineering leaders building low-latency, high-throughput applications with Elixir. Our U.S. and Latin American developers integrate seamlessly into your workflows, whether launching new services, expanding backend capacity, or modernizing legacy codebases.

Growth-Stage Tech Companies

Expand backend infrastructure without losing uptime. Our Elixir developers optimize concurrency, reduce latency, and ensure performance during high growth.

Enterprise Engineering Teams

We work within enterprise standards—compliance, code quality, and maintainability. Our Elixir developers deliver production-grade solutions that fit your architecture and scale with your needs.

Product-Focused Startups

Need to move fast? We help early-stage teams build lean, resilient services using Elixir and Phoenix—delivering MVPs, APIs, or backend modules that are fast, testable, and ready to grow.

Ways to engage

We offer a wide range of engagement models to meet our clients’ needs. From hourly consultation to fully managed solutions, our engagement models are designed to be flexible and customizable.

Staff Augmentation

Get access to on-demand product and engineering team talent that gives your company the flexibility to scale up and down as business needs ebb and flow.

Retainer Services

Retainers are perfect for companies that have a fully built product in maintenance mode. We'll give you peace of mind by keeping your software running, secure, and up to date.

Project Engagement

Project-based contracts that can range from small-scale audit and strategy sessions to more intricate replatforming or build from scratch initiatives.

We'll spec out a custom engagement model for you

Invested in creating success and defining new standards

At Curotec, we do more than deliver cutting-edge solutions — we build lasting partnerships. It’s the trust and collaboration we foster with our clients that make CEOs, CTOs, and CMOs consistently choose Curotec as their go-to partner.

Helping a Series B SaaS company refine and scale their product efficiently

Why choose Curotec for Elixir development

We specialize in functional programming and production-ready Elixir architectures. Whether you’re scaling up or starting something new, Curotec delivers with speed and precision, without sacrificing quality.

1 Extraordinary people, exceptional outcomes

Our outstanding team represents our greatest asset. With business acumen, we translate objectives into solutions. Intellectual agility drives efficient software development problem-solving. Superior communication ensures seamless teamwork integration.

2 Deep technical expertise

We don’t claim to be experts in every framework and language. Instead, we focus on the tech ecosystems in which we excel, selecting engagements that align with our competencies for optimal results. Moreover, we offer pre-developed components and scaffolding to save you time and money.

3 Balancing innovation with practicality

We stay ahead of industry trends and innovations, avoiding the hype of every new technology fad. Focusing on innovations with real commercial potential, we guide you through the ever-changing tech landscape, helping you embrace proven technologies and cutting-edge advancements.

4 Flexibility in our approach

We offer a range of flexible working arrangements to meet your specific needs. Whether you prefer our end-to-end project delivery, embedding our experts within your teams, or consulting and retainer options, we have a solution designed to suit you.

How we build with Elixir

Fault Tolerance Engineering

Use Elixir’s process isolation and supervision trees to build resilient, reliable applications that withstand failure and maintain performance.

Data Pipeline Development

Design responsive data pipelines for seamless ingestion, transformation, and delivery using GenStage or Broadway.

Developer Tooling & Automation

Establish feedback loops, strong local development environments, and optimized task runners to improve developer experience and workflows.

Stateful Service Architecture

Implement persistent, long-running services with ETS and GenServers for session-based or stream-aware logic.

DevOps for Elixir Workloads

Automate build, test, and deploy workflows using tools like Distillery, Mix, and Docker for Elixir-based apps.

Performance Debugging & Tuning

Detect bottlenecks and enhance the performance of BEAM-based applications with telemetry, tracing, and in-depth runtime analysis.

Production-ready Elixir, backed by the right stack

Build Tools & Package Management

Curotec streamlines Elixir development with modern tools and managers that speed up workflows and keep environments stable.

Mix: Elixir’s native build tool for compiling code, running tests, and managing dependencies efficiently.
Hex: Package manager for Elixir libraries, supporting private and public packages across teams and projects.
Rebar3: Advanced build tool for Erlang projects, often used to manage low-level dependencies in Elixir apps.
ExUnit: Built-in test framework in Elixir with features for unit testing, async tests, and detailed output.
Distillery: Release management tool that packages Elixir apps for deployment with configuration control.
esbuild: Lightweight frontend asset bundler used in Phoenix apps for compiling JavaScript and CSS quickly.

Performance Monitoring & Error Tracking

We integrate observability tools that help teams monitor Elixir applications, catch issues early, and optimize performance in production.

Telemetry: Built-in instrumentation framework in Elixir for collecting metrics and performance data across systems.
AppSignal: Full-stack monitoring tool with built-in support for Elixir, offering error tracking, metrics, and alerts.
New Relic: Cloud-based APM platform that provides deep visibility into Elixir performance, transactions, and bottlenecks.
Rollbar: Real-time error monitoring and logging tool used to track exceptions and maintain code health.
Prometheus: Open-source metrics platform for time-series monitoring, often paired with Grafana dashboards.
Honeybadger: Lightweight error tracking tool with Elixir support, helping teams fix bugs faster with context-rich reports.

Database & Messaging Integrations

Curotec connects Elixir applications with fast, reliable data and messaging pipelines for high-throughput, distributed architectures.

PostgreSQL: The most widely used database in the Elixir ecosystem, ideal for transactional applications and complex queries.
MySQL: Popular relational database used in Elixir apps requiring structured data and scalable storage solutions.
MongoDB: NoSQL document store used for flexible, schema-less data in real-time and event-driven systems.
Redis: In-memory key-value store commonly used in Elixir apps for caching, background jobs, and pub/sub messaging.
RabbitMQ: Message broker built on Erlang, natively suited to integrate with Elixir for asynchronous processing.
Apache Kafka: Distributed event streaming platform often used in Elixir architectures for handling large volumes of real-time data.

Deployment & Runtime Environments

We configure Elixir codebases for reliable deployment and runtime performance across multiple infrastructure environments.

Docker: Containerizes Elixir apps for consistent deployment and simplified dependency management.
Kubernetes: Orchestrates Elixir services at scale with rolling updates, service discovery, and self-healing workloads.
Fly.io: Global app hosting platform with native Elixir support, ideal for latency-sensitive, distributed apps.
Gigalixir: Managed Elixir platform-as-a-service offering autoscaling, HTTPS, and zero-downtime deploys.
Heroku: Simple and fast cloud platform to launch and scale Elixir applications with minimal ops overhead.
Systemd: Used for running Elixir services as background daemons with robust monitoring and logging.

Monitoring, Observability & Telemetry

Curotec implements observability tools to monitor Elixir performance, detect issues proactively, and maintain service uptime.

Telemetry: Native Elixir instrumentation framework for capturing metrics, traces, and custom events.
Prometheus: Time-series monitoring system for collecting Elixir app metrics and alerting on anomalies.
Grafana: Visualizes system health and trends with custom dashboards powered by Prometheus data.
OpenTelemetry: Enables distributed tracing and telemetry export from Elixir apps to observability platforms.
Logger: Elixir’s built-in logging system for capturing structured logs during runtime.
Sentry: Real-time error monitoring tool that captures and aggregates exceptions in Elixir applications.

Testing & Quality Assurance

We implement robust testing strategies to ensure Elixir applications are reliable, maintainable, and production-ready.

ExUnit: Elixir’s built-in test framework for unit, integration, and async testing.
PropCheck: Property-based testing library for validating complex logic and edge cases.
Mox: Mocks and stubs for isolated testing of external dependencies in Elixir apps.
Credo: Static code analysis tool to enforce code consistency and quality standards.
Dialyxir: Type-checking via Dialyzer to catch type errors before they hit production.
Benchee: Benchmarking suite for comparing performance of different Elixir functions or modules.

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