Beam Radio

Stories and conversations around Elixir, Erlang and the BEAM ecosystem

About the show

A packed panel of Elixir experts and experienced developers who make the complicated interesting and fun. We talk about Elixir, Erlang and all things related to the BEAM virtual machine ecosystem.

Featuring a panel of hosts including Bruce Tate, Sophie Debenedetto, Alex Koutmos, Steven Nunez and Lars Wikman.

Edited by Maggie Tate
Sponsored by Grox.io and Underjord

Episodes

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    Episode 32: Most Excellent and Important Wisdom for Professional Developers

    May 5th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  50 mins 49 secs
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    The Beam Radio Panel tackles the question "What is the most important advice or learnings you've had in your career as professional developers?"

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    Episode 31: Upping Your Game - Elixir Resources

    April 14th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  43 mins 48 secs
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    The BeamRadio panel talks about the best resources for learning Elixir and upping your game!

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    Episode 30: LiveView JS and LiveBeats

    April 5th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  37 mins 56 secs
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    Join the panel as they discuss some chainsaw therapy as well as LiveView JS and LiveBeats!

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    Episode 29: LiveBook and Other Fun Projects

    March 23rd, 2022  |  Season 2  |  54 mins 11 secs
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    Join Alex as he facilitates a discussion with the hosts about everyone's side projects. It's a great peek into what the hosts are working on!

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    Episode 28: Rabbit MQ Streams

    March 9th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  53 mins 35 secs
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    Join the Beam Radio panel as they talk RabbitMQ Streams with Arnaud Cogoluègnes and Karl Nilsson, RabbitMQ Core Team Members

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    Episode 27: Elixir Show and Tell

    February 23rd, 2022  |  Season 2  |  50 mins 10 secs
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    For a long time, Steven remembers using Elixir was theoretical, or he didn't get to use a cool feature the BEAM had to offer. He loved hearing about all the things others were doing with it. Now there's so much with LiveView, and Nerves... it's time to showcase cool projects we think the BEAM makes possible. Welcome to Elixir Show and Tell!

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    Episode 26: Alex Talks Erlang

    February 2nd, 2022  |  Season 2  |  37 mins 9 secs
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    Join the BeamRadio Panel as Alex hosts a discussion of Elixir's roots in Erlang.

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    Episode 25: People Work Here! A Chat with Amos King on Agile

    January 11th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  46 mins 27 secs
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    Season 2! This week the panel talks Agile development with the one and only Amos King of Binary Noggin.

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    Episode 24: BeamRadio Round Robin Ask Me Anything with the Hosts

    December 28th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  44 mins 19 secs
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    Today the hosts ask each other questions - topics covered include The Great Loop, LiveBook, live streaming and more!

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    Episode 23: Event Streaming on The BEAM with Jeffrey Matthias and Andrea Leopardi

    November 16th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  56 mins 24 secs
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    We're joined by Community engineers and Testing Elixir co-authors Jeffrey and Andrea who tell us about how they build an event-driven system with the dream-team of Elixir.

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    Episode 22: Total World Domination

    November 2nd, 2021  |  Season 1  |  47 mins 51 secs
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    Elixir is going to rule the world. The abstractions are right, the foundation is right and most folks aren't fighting with the tooling and the language and the runtime to achieve amazing goals. The panel discusses LiveView, Nerves, Axon Nx Machine Learning and the BEAM ecosystem.

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    Episode 21: Elixir and Productivity

    October 19th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  52 mins 24 secs
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    Alex and the panel of hosts dive into the question of what makes the Elixir language so dang productive.

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    Episode 20: Living with Elixir, Jerod Santo

    October 5th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  43 mins 22 secs
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    This week the panel chats with Jerod Santo of Changelog.com about his experince with Elixir. Lars takes the helm leading the discussion.

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    Episode 19: That’s not a problem. That’s success!

    September 21st, 2021  |  Season 1  |  57 mins 37 secs
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    Lars and the BeamRad.io team discuss what we think Elixir could, should or will do in the future.

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    Episode 18: Code Heresy with Chris Keathley

    September 7th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 4 mins
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    The BeamRadio Team talks Elixir, Telemetry, Contexts and Code Heresy with Chris Keathley

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    Episode 17: Elixir Deployment with Hubert Łępicki

    August 24th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  37 mins 48 secs
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    Josh Adams and the team talk with Hubert about all the options available for deploying Elixir applications and some Keto info along the way.