Elixir Expertise

Allegro is a prominent Polish e-commerce platform and one of the global leaders in the e-commerce field. In 2020, during the pandemic, they hit a net revenue of nearly four billion PLN (870 million EUR). Their C2C platform, Allegro Lokalnie, was also built using Elixir and Phoenix. As a result, Allegro became one of the top companies in the world benefiting from those technologies. The Allegro Lokalnie app handles significant traffic of over 16M users/month thanks to Elixir's high concurrency.

Our team has been involved in the development and growth of the platform, building a strong, long-term relationship with Allegro. Feel free to check out the details in our case study.

At Appunite, we work on challenging projects across diverse industries, including logistics, healthcare, and e-commerce. One notable project involved helping a client update their outdated system, which was underperforming, difficult to maintain, and built as an MVP. The main challenge was ensuring uninterrupted, fast, and easy access to large volumes of time series data for world-class economists.

We didn’t just rebuild a faster, more scalable, and reliable system; we also identified improvements to the client's requirements that they hadn’t considered. This was made possible by our mindset at Appunite — acting as true partners, not just a service provider, and always seeking better solutions to business challenges.

Event-driven architecture is a powerful idea. It allows the system to grow and evolve in a loosely coupled manner. The concept of separating a business fact from its secondary consequences brings a lot of flexibility to the table and allows teams to work efficiently even in a substantially complex environment. Read more in our article!

A marketplace we work on had difficulty engaging customers by informing them about new promotions and encouraging them to buy and sell their products. They needed a new, more effective communication channel than emails or push notifications.

They wanted to be able to send marketing messages with specific content and to specific user bases at scheduled times, ideally using the existing chat user interface.

Although altering the existing chat functionality required us to solve a few technical problems, it allowed us to deliver the feature quickly and, more importantly, provide the expected business value for our partner. You can read more in this article.

We empower every team member to take the initiative and ownership in solving problems and delivering value for our clients. Your ideas and actions directly contribute to our shared success, so we welcome all suggestions. Our experience shows that this is one of the best vehicles for professional growth.

We believe that everyone we work with has good intentions. However, building trust requires demonstrating it through actions. Be open to discussion, share your reasoning when making decisions, and be willing to admit when you're wrong. We understand that decisions are made with the best intentions at the time. We value constructive feedback and believe there's always a thoughtful moment to share it. Trust is the foundation of the long-lasting relationships we build with our employees and partners.

We constantly listen to customers (internal and external), and then continuously test, enhance, and personalize the customer experience. Seeing the bigger picture and caring about the final product, even if you need to make a trade-off, always having long-term satisfaction. It's also about employee focus and thinking about what we can do for Appuniters.

Engineering is about finding optimal solutions for real problems. It’s about looking at the simplest way to solve changing problems. We don’t blindly follow the schemes. If something works we do it, when it doesn’t we don’t. Pragmatism is about measuring and acting fast based on those data. We validate ideas and we aren’t afraid to say something didn’t work. We don’t look for ideal things, just because those don't exist - but we strive to find the best solution from a time and quality perspective.

Curiosity means never stop learning. We should be excited to learn and try new things. When a team is curious, they are proactive and not reactive. We are expected to try new things. Even if it leads to making a bad call. After all, a bad decision is better than no decision. We aren’t afraid of being wrong. We are curious if we are right. We use our curiosity to build a deep understanding of how things really work. And we believe that it can make a huge difference.

Helping others is a priority, even when it is not immediately related to the goals that you are trying to achieve. We are collaborative on the problems we face. We work together for the common good and we are supporting each other. We rely on other team members and we aren’t afraid of asking for help. We care about inclusion. We respect others, their opinions and beliefs. No matter what background, religion, gender or race the person we work with is.