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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…
2 months, 1 week 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…
2 months, 2 weeks 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 months, 3 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…
2 months, 4 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…
3 months 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…
3 months, 1 week 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…
3 months, 2 weeks 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…
3 months, 3 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 …
4 months 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…
4 months, 1 week ago