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 Alex Koutmos, Andrew Ek, Bruce Tate, Lars Wikman, and Meryl Dakin.
Edited by Maggie Tate
Sponsored by Grox.io and Underjord
Episodes
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Episode 88: Unlocking the Power of NX with Paulo Valente
March 7th, 2025 | Season 3 | 1 hr 1 min
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
Lars Wikman, Andrew Ek and Paulo Valente take a deep dive into NX
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Episode 87: Chris Grainger talks Data Science and Engineering and Elixir
February 21st, 2025 | Season 3 | 1 hr 6 mins
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
In this conversation, Lars and Chris delve into the intersection of Elixir, data engineering, and data science. They explore the significance of data pipelines, the role of Elixir in transforming data, and the challenges faced in data processing.
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Episode 86: The Future of Gleam: Innovations and Insights with Giacomo Cavalieri
February 5th, 2025 | Season 3 | 48 mins 34 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
Jak and Lars have a delightful conversation about Gleam, the language's type safety, adoption and ecosystem growth.
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Episode 85: James Gray II and Innovative Education
January 22nd, 2025 | Season 3 | 58 mins 59 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
In this conversation, Bruce, Andrew, and James discuss their experiences with Elixir programming, the importance of exploring and modeling in software development, and innovative educational approaches using Livebook.
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Episode 84: Peter Ullrich: Making Elixir Easy to Learn
January 8th, 2025 | Season 3 | 56 mins 45 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
The BeamRadio panel chats about making Elixir easy for devs from other languages to learn and how to talk about Elixir in the greater development community.
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Episode 82: The B in Beam - A Chat with Björn Gustavsson
December 11th, 2024 | Season 3 | 53 mins 7 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
How it started and how it's going - an enlightening chat with Björn Gustavsson about Erlang/Elixir history.
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Episode 83: Brian Underwood and EctoWatch
December 3rd, 2024 | Season 3 | 57 mins 30 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
Lars talks with Brian Underwood about EctoWatch, his new library.
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Episode 81: The Power and Control of the Ash Framework with Zach Daniel and Rebecca Le
November 13th, 2024 | Season 3 | 1 hr 36 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
Lars has a enlightening convo with Zach and Rebecca about Ash and their upcoming book, Building Web Applications with Ash.
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Episode 80: Bryan Hunter - Poka Yoke, Safety and Reliability
October 14th, 2024 | Season 3 | 48 mins 37 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
The panel explores Poka Yoke with Bryan Hunter - the concept of mistake-proofing and its application in Erlang and Elixir.
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Episode 79: Marcel Fahle - Supporting the Good Stuff
September 26th, 2024 | Season 3 | 53 mins 38 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
Lars and Bruce have a fabulous chat with Marcel Fahle creator of Bold Video and Pidro, a classic multiplayer card game for iOS and Android.
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Episode 78: The Perfect Broth for Cooking the Book with Ellie Fairholm and Josep Giralt D'Lacoste.
August 21st, 2024 | Season 3 | 45 mins 48 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
The BeamRadio panel chats with Ellie Fairholm and Josep Giralt D'Lacoste, authors of Engineering Elixir Applications.
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Episode 77: NervesConf 2024
August 8th, 2024 | Season 3 | 1 hr 3 mins
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
Lars chats with Alex McLain and Jon Carstens about NervesConf 2024.
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Episode 76: I put my money on Elixir with Chris Grainger
July 17th, 2024 | Season 3 | 56 mins 43 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
Lars and Alex chat with Chris Grainger about his journey into Elixir and using machine learning and AI in Elixir to build a product and a business.
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Episode 75: Derrick Reimer of SavvyCal talks SaaS product and Elixir
June 19th, 2024 | Season 3 | 51 mins 11 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
The BeamRadio panel has a great conversation with Derrick Reimer about functional programming and the benefits Elixir brings to SavvyCal.
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Episode 74: Live from GigCityElixir 2024!
May 22nd, 2024 | Season 3 | 47 mins 47 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
Bruce and Lars are live on stage at GigCityElixir in Chattanooga Tennessee and (mostly) unedited!
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Episode 73: The BeamRadio panel talks with Benjamin Milde aka @lostkobrakai
April 9th, 2024 | Season 3 | 53 mins 15 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
Join the panel for a fabulous talk with the one and only @lostkobrakai