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Elixir in the Browser: Bart Blast on Hologram
Season 1 Episode 21
What if instead of making your server smarter to handle the browser, you just ran your Elixir in the browser instead?
That's the bet Bart Blast has be…
12 hours ago
Zig Meets the BEAM: Garrison Hinson-Hasty & Isaac Yonemoto on Safer Native Code
Season 1 Episode 20
Everyone who's ever written a C NIF for the BEAM knows the story. You have a bottleneck, you reach for native code, it works - until one day it doesn…
1 week ago
Inside the BEAM JIT: How Lukas Backström Made Erlang Faster
Season 1 Episode 19
In 2021, Erlang got something it had been promised for years: a Just-In-Time compiler. The person who built the first working prototype, spent years …
2 weeks ago
Static Types Finally Come to the BEAM | Annette Bieniusa & Guillaume Duboc
Season 1 Episode 18
Joe Armstrong once said anyone can write a type system covering 90% of Erlang — it's the remaining 10% that defeats even the brightest minds in compu…
3 weeks ago
30 Years Inside the BEAM: Björn Gustafsson on Building Erlang's Runtime
Season 1 Episode 17
Three engineers. Three different virtual machines. One conversation that started with the JAM and ends with the JIT compiler.
Allen Wyma and Francesco…
4 weeks ago
Why Elixir Beat Go and Rust for BlueSky's Data Plane | Chris Beck
Season 1 Episode 16
There's a gap between BlueSky's open reference implementation (handles a few hundred thousand users) and BlueSky's own production system (handles mil…
1 month ago
Why Multiplayer Games Are Just Distributed Systems | Ellyse Cedeno on BEAM & the Actor Model
Season 1 Episode 15
Every player is a process. Every monster is a process. Every zone is a process. Sound familiar?
In this episode, Allen Wyma and Francesco Cesarini sit…
1 month, 1 week ago
Who Builds the Next Generation of Senior Devs? Bruce Tate on AI, Juniors, and the Career Path Crisis
Season 1 Episode 14
The dashboards are green. PRs are shipping faster than ever. So why are seniors quietly burning out — and juniors not actually learning?
In this episo…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
AI Found 5 CVEs in One Afternoon — The BEAM Security Wake-Up Call | Peter Ullrich & Jonathan Machen
Season 1 Episode 13
The BEAM ecosystem spent decades flying under the radar - too niche to attract serious attackers. That era is over.
In this episode, we sit down with …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Inside the BEAM: Björn Gustavsson on Maps, Records, and Runtime Design
Season 1 Episode 12
For the first time in over a decade, the Erlang runtime is gaining a new native data type — and on this episode of BEAM There, Done That, hosts Franc…
2 months ago