
Beam Radio
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
Latest episodes

Mar 9, 2022 • 54min
Episode 28: Rabbit MQ Streams
Join the Beam Radio panel as they talk RabbitMQ Streams with Arnaud Cogoluègnes and Karl Nilsson, RabbitMQ Core Team Members
Show Notes:
https://github.com/rabbitmq/osiris
Interoperability: https://blog.rabbitmq.com/posts/2021/10/rabbitmq-streams-interoperability/
Erlang client: https://gitlab.com/evnu/lake
https://www.amqp.org/
https://www.rabbitmq.com/tutorials/amqp-concepts.html
https://github.com/rabbitmq/gen-batch-server
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@_StevenNunez
@akoutmos
@lawik
@RedRapids
@sm_debenedetto
Sponsored by @GroxioLearning
https://grox.io

Feb 23, 2022 • 50min
Episode 27: Elixir Show and Tell
Show Notes:
FarmBot https://farm.bot
Bowery Farming https://boweryfarming.com
https://underjord.io/guest-feature-amclain-cross-cutting-elixir.html
https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/how-nomad-powers-a-google-backed-indoor-farming-startup-to-disrupt-agtech
https://relistan.com/event-sourcing-and-event-bus?utm_medium=email&utm_source=elixir-radar
https://wearebold.af
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@_StevenNunez
@akoutmos
@lawik
@RedRapids
@sm_debenedetto
Sponsored by @GroxioLearning
https://grox.io

Feb 2, 2022 • 37min
Episode 26: Alex Talks Erlang
Alex Talks Erlang
Join the BeamRadio Panel as Alex hosts a discussion of Elixir's roots in Erlang.
Show Notes
Alex's book: https://pragprog.com/titles/passweather/build-a-weather-station-with-elixir-and-nerves/
Sophie's blog: https://www.thegreatcodeadventure.com/testing-genservers-with-erlang-trace/
Joe Armstrong's book on Erlang: https://pragprog.com/titles/jaerlang2/programming-erlang-2nd-edition/
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@_StevenNunez
@akoutmos
@lawik
@RedRapids
@sm_debenedetto
Sponsored by @GroxioLearning
https://grox.io

Jan 11, 2022 • 46min
Episode 25: People Work Here! A Chat with Amos King on Agile
This week the panel talks Agile development with the one and only Amos King of Binary Noggin.
Show Links:
Amos King: @adkron
BinaryNoggin: @binarynoggin and https://binarynoggin.com
https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/commit/7205df526863b8f391a432ff93700d06e951dfc0
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@akoutmos
@lawik
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@sm_debenedetto
Sponsored by @GroxioLearning
https://grox.io

Dec 28, 2021 • 44min
Episode 24: BeamRadio Round Robin Ask Me Anything with the Hosts
Today the hosts ask each other questions - topics covered include The Great Loop, LiveBook, live streaming and more!
Boat Info: www.greatloop.org
https://www.rangertugs.com/models/model-category/r-29-s/
Live Streaming: https://underjord.io/free-things.html
Beer Song: https://github.com/octosteve/99_bottles_ex
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@_StevenNunez
@akoutmos
@knewter
@lawik
@RedRapids
@sm_debenedetto
Sponsored by @GroxioLearning

Nov 16, 2021 • 56min
Episode 23: Event Streaming on The BEAM with Jeffrey Matthias and Andrea Leopardi
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, Broadway, and RabbitMQ. We also learn that Jeffrey did not build the big orange chair.
Testing Elixir: https://pragprog.com/titles/lmelixir/testing-elixir/
Andrea Leopardi @whatyouhide
Jeffrey Matthias @idlehands
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Nov 2, 2021 • 48min
Episode 22: Total World Domination
Show Notes:
Total World Domination. Where Elixir goes and where the BEAM goes, they are doing a good job. 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 these amazing goals. Hosts discuss Liveview, Nerves, and Machine Learning and the BEAM ecosystem.
@NervesProject
Build a Weather Station with Nerves book
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@akoutmos
@knewter
@lawik
@RedRapids
@sm_debenedetto
Sponsored by @GroxioLearning

Oct 19, 2021 • 52min
Episode 21: Elixir and Productivity
In today's show Alex's kicks it off with the question "What parts of Elixir really give you productivity?"
Nerves Weather Station book
Designing Elixir Systems with OTP book
Groxio OTP and LiveView Training
Lars' talk at Func Prog Sweden
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@_StevenNunez
@akoutmos
@knewter
@lawik
@RedRapids
@sm_debenedetto
Sponsored by @GroxioLearning

Oct 5, 2021 • 43min
Episode 20: Living with Elixir, Jerod Santo
This week the panel chats with Jerod Santo of Changelog.com about his experience with Elixir. Lars takes the helm leading the discussion.
Follow Jerod (@jerodsanto) the cohost of @Changelog and @JSpartyFM on Twitter and find him producing @GoTimeFM and @PracticalAIFM.
We want to connect with you!
Twitter: @BeamRadio1
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Keep up to date with our hosts on Twitter
@_StevenNunez
@akoutmos
@knewter
@lawik
@RedRapids
@sm_debenedetto
Sponsored by @GroxioLearning

Sep 21, 2021 • 58min
Episode 19: That’s not a problem. That’s success!
Starting from the foundation of "what more do we need?" we get into all sorts of discussions around where we see that Elixir can flourish.
Links:
LiveView
Nerves Project
Scenic (Elixir UI on OpenGL)
Membrane Framework
2020 Elixir Community Survey data
Vega-Lite - A Gammar of Interactive Graphics
Vega-Lite for Livebook
Elixir Nx
Phoenix Thesis
Talk: Lars @ Func Prog Sweden
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Twitter: @BeamRadio1
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@_StevenNunez
@akoutmos
@knewter
@lawik
@RedRapids
@sm_debenedetto
Sponsored by @GroxioLearning
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