Exploring Observability and the Beam Programming Community

In this chapter, the hosts introduce themselves, discuss their expertise in observability and the beam programming community, and mention their involvement in the Elixir side of things and their role as a co-author of a book on programming Phoenix Live View. They also talk about their podcast, Beam Radio, where they discuss all things beam and invite guests to share their experiences. Later in the chapter, they explain the beam as the Erlang VM and how it implements the actor model for message passing between actors, also mentioning OTP, a suite of libraries commonly used in Erlang or Elixir programming.