Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
Alex Koutmos on Elixir for Finance, Trading & Blockchain
Season 1 Episode 31
Brex runs on Elixir. Klarna runs on Erlang. Mastercard is believed to use it. And most of the community that builds on these systems watches them wit…
7 hours ago
Kip Cole on Time, Localization and Building Agenda
Season 1 Episode 30
The Navajo Nation inside Arizona observes daylight saving. The Hopi reservation inside the Navajo Nation skips it again. There's a corner of the Yuca…
1 week ago
Is Your Elixir Code Actually Fast? Tobias Pfeiffer on Benchmarking
Season 1 Episode 29
Everyone has an opinion about whether the BEAM is fast or slow. Almost nobody has actually measured it properly.
Tobias Pfeiffer -PragTob on the inter…
2 weeks ago
Louis Pilfold on Building Gleam - Static Types on the BEAM
Season 1 Episode 28
What if the BEAM had a language that felt like talking to a friend instead of fighting a compiler?
That's the problem Louis Pilfold set out to solve. …
3 weeks ago
How WhatsApp Fixed Erlang's Tooling Problem | Roberto Aloi & Michał Muskała
Season 1 Episode 27
Part one established that Erlang scales. Part two is about what comes after - keeping a codebase that large healthy for years, when most engineers ar…
4 weeks ago
Inside WhatsApp with Roberto Aloi & Michał Muskała
Season 1 Episode 26
Everyone quotes WhatsApp when the topic of Erlang and scale comes up. Fewer people know what it actually looks like from the inside - what was hard, …
1 month ago
Erlang on a Microcontroller: Davide Bettio & Paul Guyot on AtomVM
Season 1 Episode 25
In 1952, Marvin Minsky and Claude Shannon built a box with a single switch. When you flip it, the only thing it does is reach out and switch itself b…
1 month, 1 week ago
Mat Trudel on Building Bandit - the Web Server Running Your Phoenix App
Season 1 Episode 24
Bandit quietly became the default web server in Phoenix. Mat Trudel wrote it by hand, in pure Elixir, as a side project - and kept it that way even a…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Erlang Without an OS: Maxim Kharchenko on Building LING
Season 1 Episode 23
Booting OTP without a Linux kernel underneath it. Running Erlang directly on a Xen hypervisor. Implementing a VM where every single out-of-memory con…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Mike Williams & Björn Gustavsson on Building the JAM
Season 1 Episode 22
Before the BEAM, there was the JAM - Joe's Abstract Machine. It was the first virtual machine that made Erlang fast enough to run in production, and …
2 months ago