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BEAM There, Done That is a podcast about building real systems with Elixir, Erlang, and the BEAM.We’ve built it before — distributed systems, fault‑tolerant services, event pipelines, real‑time apps, production nightmares, and the supervision trees that saved them.Each episode dives into practical lessons from shipping software on the BEAM: architecture decisions, scaling challenges, operational failures, and the patterns that actually work.No hype. No theory without scars. Just hard‑won experience from engineers who’ve been there.
Plangora hosts BEAM There, Done That, a technology show with 24 episodes published.
Bandit quietly became the default web server in Phoenix. Mat Trudel wrote it by hand, in pure Elixir, as a side project - and kept it that way even as AI changed how everyone else writes code. This episode goes two place
Booting OTP without a Linux kernel underneath it. Running Erlang directly on a Xen hypervisor. Implementing a VM where every single out-of-memory condition is explicitly handled — not a single allocation without a recove
Before the BEAM, there was the JAM - Joe's Abstract Machine. It was the first virtual machine that made Erlang fast enough to run in production, and it was built by a handful of people at Ericsson's computer science lab
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 been making for six years - three of them full time. Hologram is a full-
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't, and instead of a process crashing, the whole node goes down. A segf
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 on failed experiments before it, and quietly shipped it to every Erlang
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 computer science. He was referring to Philip Wadler. That was 1995. Thirty y
Three engineers. Three different virtual machines. One conversation that started with the JAM and ends with the JIT compiler. Allen Wyma and Francesco Cesarini sit down again with Björn Gustafsson — member of the OTP tea
There's a gap between BlueSky's open reference implementation (handles a few hundred thousand users) and BlueSky's own production system (handles millions, but runs on infrastructure most teams can't replicate). Chris Be
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 down with Ellyse Cedeno - technology and product leader with 25+ year
The dashboards are green. PRs are shipping faster than ever. So why are seniors quietly burning out — and juniors not actually learning? In this episode, Allen Wyma and Francesco Cesarini sit down in person with Bruce Ta
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 Peter Ullrich, the developer who ran a $10 experiment at ElixirConf EU
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 Francesco Cesarini and Allan Wyma sit down with Björn Gustavsson, known by m
Three and a half years, one book, and a clearer answer to what Phoenix is actually doing under the hood. Phoenix makes building web apps in Elixir feel effortless, but how much of that is genuine elegance and how much is
In this episode of BEAM There, Done That, hosts explore what really happens when the high-level concurrency and fault-tolerance of Elixir meet the low-level performance and control of Rust. The conversation dives into in
In this episode of BEAM There, Done That, hosts Francesco Cesarini and Allen Wyma sit down with Chris McCord, the creator of the Phoenix Framework, for a deep dive into the evolving world of Elixir, distributed systems,
In this episode of BEAM There, Done That, co-hosts Francesco Cesarini and Allen Wyma sit down with Dave Lucia, co-founder and CTO of TV Labs, and Paulo Valente, AI specialist and maintainer of Nx. The conversation explor
The Code is the Instrument: Sam Aaron on the Why of the Sonic Pi
Erlang was designed for reliability in telephone switches, but its core principles — isolated processes, message passing, “let it crash supervision — anticipated problems we’re only now grappling with at scale. Four deca
We catch up with Kimutai Kiprotich about using Elixir and the BEAM to build AI Agents.
Bruce Tate
Groxio
1 appearance on this show
Dave Lucia
co-founder and CTO · TV Labs
1 appearance on this show
Francesco Cesarini
Erlang Solutions
1 appearance on this show
Lukas Backström
Erlang OTP team
1 appearance on this show
Jonathan Machen
Erlang Ecosystem Foundation
1 appearance on this show
Florian Gilcher
Ferrous Systems
1 appearance on this show
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