Best Lars Wikman Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 88: Unlocking the Power of NX with Paulo Valente 1:01:07

1M ago1:01:07

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NX provides a powerful framework for machine learning in Elixir and Lars, Andrew and Paulo Valente take a deep dive into it! Connect with Paulo on Bluesky - @polvalente.social Come join us! GigCityElixir and NervesConf US - May 8-10, Chattanooga, TN GigCityElixir.com Goatmire Elixir and NervesConf - Sept 10-12, Varburg, Sweden Goatmire.com We want …

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Episode 87: Chris Grainger talks Data Science and Engineering and Elixir 1:06:41

2M ago1:06:41

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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. Find Chris on [Bluesky](@cigrainger.bsky.social) and on the Elixir Forum. Keep up to date with our host…

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Episode 86: The Future of Gleam: Innovations and Insights with Giacomo Cavalieri 48:34

2M ago48:34

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Jak and Lars have a delightful conversation about Gleam, the language's type safety, adoption and ecosystem growth. Find Jak: [giacomocavalieri.me](giacomocavalieri.me) @giacomo_cava We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox Keep up to date with our hosts: Twitter: @akoutmos @ek…

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Episode 85: James Gray II and Innovative Education 58:59

2M ago58:59

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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. James E. Gray II @[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-edward-gray-ii/ Upcoming Conferences: https://codebeamamer…

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About Ending Things 40:47

3M ago40:47

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The End. Links LADOK Sanne Kalkman - companies should hire junior developers Münchenbryggeriet The art of gathering Dead dog party Nobody wants this Neon genesis evangelion Ghost in the shell: stand alone complex Serial experiments Lain Hackers Black mirror William Gibson Burning chrome Neil Stephenson The Bridge trilogy s-CRY-ed Fullmetal alchemis…

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Episode 84: Peter Ullrich: Making Elixir Easy to Learn 56:45

3M ago56:45

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By Lars Wikman

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About the Least Powerful Abstraction 42:19

4M ago42:19

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Imagine Andreas going around making annoying electronic sounds all the time. Strike that. Andreas and Lars discuss using less power - less fancy abstractions - to make things easier to understand. Andreas likes to do a de-powering pass to code. Avoid making something which is more general than is useful. Lars goes into the lure of event sourcing - …

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Episode 82: The B in Beam - A Chat with Björn Gustavsson 53:07

4M ago53:07

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How it started and how it's going - an enlightening chat with Björn Gustavsson about Erlang/Elixir history. Read the Erlang/OTP blog We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox Keep up to date with our hosts: Twitter: @akoutmos @ektastrophe @meryldakin @redrapids Bluesky @akoutmos…

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Episode 83: Brian Underwood and EctoWatch 57:30

4M ago57:30

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Lars talks with Brian Underwood about EctoWatch, his library. "EctoWatch allows you to easily get notifications about database changes directly from PostgreSQL." Find more from Brian at [Brian-underwood.codes](Brian-underwood.codes) We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox Keep…

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About Licenses 45:23

4M ago45:23

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How do people learn about licenses? If you entered into software in a certain way, it's easy to assume that everyone is a part-time license attorney. But how do other people pick up license knowledge? And what does one really need to know? Licenses underpin open source but seem kind of dull. But they are also a cool and special thing about the soft…

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Episode 81: The Power and Control of the Ash Framework with Zach Daniel and Rebecca Le 1:00:36

5M ago1:00:36

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In this conversation, Lars, Zach, and Rebecca discuss the Ash framework and their upcoming book. They also touch on the Igniter tool. The book, titled 'Building Web Applications with Ash', will provide a comprehensive tutorial and reference for using Ash and is expected in beta by the end of the year with @pragprog We want to connect with you! Twit…

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About Learning New Languages 42:28

5M ago42:28

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Everyone's favorite idempotent podcast returns to discuss learning new languages and concepts. Can mixing and matching new concepts and syntax help or hinder language adoption? A new concept but a familiar syntax might make a language easier for all the drifting Javascript developers to grab on to. Lars considers picking up a lisp at some point. It…

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Episode 80: Bryan Hunter - Poka Yoke, Safety and Reliability 48:37

6M ago48:37

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The panel explores Poka Yoke with Bryan Hunter - the concept of mistake-proofing and its application in Erlang and Elixir. Bryan Hunter [GigCityElixir24] Poka Yoke, STAMP and the BEAM Engineering A Safer World by Nancy G. Leveson We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox Keep up…

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About C 53:39

6M ago53:39

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Wherein the wonders of C are explored. But first, let Andreas tell you what's so great about Chalmers' approach to teaching computer engineering. Spoiler: starting with Haskell, close to math. The tooling around C: cultural mystery meat. Lars tries out a shocking plan for a productive framework for C! It's very cool to be able to just poke memory. …

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About Defining Functional Programming 37:54

6M ago37:54

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What is functional programming? Andreas grabs his whiteboard and his Turing machine, and starts from laziness, while Lars thinks of immutability, functions, and data. Is syntax important for being functional or not? The functionalness of various languages are delved into, from Haskell to Rust via Python, Go, and Ruby. And, of course, the evil versi…

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Episode 79: Marcel Fahle - Supporting the Good Stuff 53:38

7M ago53:38

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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. on X: @marcelfahle https://marcelfahle.net/ bold.video Pidro card game We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox Keep up to date with our h…

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About Giving Talks 27:47

7M ago27:47

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Lars wants a less demanding way to prepare for giving talks, but he doesn't have the time right now. Andreas knows a cheat code for public speaking. Lars uses slides like a blunt instrument. How should you wield your slides? How do you weigh information content against entertainment value? Should you try to reach precisely everyone with your talk? …

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Episode 78: The Perfect Broth for Cooking the Book with Ellie Fairholm and Josep Giralt D'Lacoste. 45:48

8M ago45:48

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Sophie DeBenedetto and Steven Nunez chat with Ellie Fairholm and Josep Giralt D'Lacoste, authors of Engineering Elixir Applications. https://pragprog.com/titles/beamops/engineering-elixir-applications/ "After reading this book, you’ll understand how to apply the BEAMOps principles in your daily work, creating reliable, scalable, and easy to underst…

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About Developer Experience 34:48

8M ago34:48

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What are people talking about when they talk about developer experience? Pretty colors in the terminal? What is worth improving, what is not? Lars has thoughts about all of developer experience, not least the one of Nerves. How flaky do you accept, for how fast? Revealed: why all Andreas' Elm programs are one line long. Also: Why not attend the Øre…

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Episode 77: NervesConf 2024 1:03:52

8M ago1:03:52

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Lars chats with Alex McLain and Jon Carstens about NervesConf 2024. @NervesConfUS @JonCarstens @RedwireLabs Nerves MeetUp: https://www.meetup.com/nerves/ We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox Keep up to date with our hosts on Twitter @akoutmos @lawik @meryldakin @RedRapids @…

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About Endings and Beginnings 28:31

8M ago28:31

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Andreas' place of work ceased to exist. It was mostly a relief. The main worry is about resting and recovering enough before whatever comes next begins. All the learnings about how not to do certain things live on. The right way of doing those things still remains to be learned. Lars is on the other end of the spectrum: beginning completely new thi…

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Episode 76: I put my money on Elixir with Chris Grainger 56:43

9M ago56:43

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Chris, Lars and Alex discuss Chris's journey into Elixir and using machine learning and AI in Elixir to build a product and a business. They also touch on the process of training models and the benefits of using Livebook. Chris Grainger https://www.amplified.ai We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @Be…

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About Non-CRUD 29:49

9M ago29:49

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CRUD - a classic term among supposedly simple web apps. But, not always the right move? Not always all that mappable to the actual problem? Discussed: picking spicy architectures, non-CRUD data storage needs, slovely solutions, dirty refunds, and doing the OAuth dance. Hey, thing happened! Finally: a story where pubsub was reasonable, and some tele…

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About Embedded 37:06

10M ago37:06

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Embedded is a weird thing. Lars is all Nerves and tries to explain and report from a world where people know part numbers off the top of their heads. The physical device missing is rarely a thing that happens in web development. Embedded-style work can sneak into other areas as well. Without a root file system, everything is a lot more secure. Secu…

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Episode 75: Derrick Reimer of SavvyCal talks SaaS product and Elixir 51:11

10M ago51:11

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In this episode, the panel chats with Derrick Reimer, co-founder of SavvyCal. They discuss the advantages of using Elixir for bootstrapped SaaS businesses and how Elixir's functional programming paradigm aligns with modern development practices. Derrick shares his journey from Rails to Elixir and explains why he prefers the clarity and explicitness…

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About Interviewing 31:10

11M ago31:10

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Andreas is a man of many hobbies. Interviewing for example. But sometimes, you get strange questions from strange people, end up feeling scared, or start lying just a bit. Then, perhaps, you tell the story of a bug. Perhaps we shouldn't work during the winter? Lars doesn't have interviews. More like sales calls. H§e shares his experiences of how to…

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Episode 74: Live from GigCityElixir 2024! 47:47

11M ago47:47

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Bruce and Lars are live on stage (and mostly unedited) at GigCityElixir in Chattanooga Tennessee hosting a great conversation of GCE folks on stage for some "hot takes." Please note, this episode contains some explicit language. We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox Keep up …

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Episode 73: The BeamRadio panel talks with Benjamin Milde aka @lostkobrakai 53:15

1y ago53:15

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Join the panel for a fabulous talk with the one and only @lostkobrakai! We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox Keep up to date with our hosts on Twitter @akoutmos @lawik @meryldakin @RedRapids @sm_debenedetto @_StevenNunez and on Mastodon @[email protected] @lawik@fossto…

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About Ranting at Ecto 36:43

1y ago36:43

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Stories about Ecto quickly redeeming itself, and of what it takes to introduce foreign keys. Some of us are super comfortable referencing the ID. Lars dislikes that Ecto needs to be more complicated because of SQL, but the abstractions do hold. Also: the biggest reason to ever use a ORM! It can be reallynice to come back to one after a tour of plai…

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Episode 72: Gleam's Core Team in the House! 52:55

1y ago52:55

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The BeamRadio panel chats all things Gleam with the core team Louis Pilford and Hayleigh Thompson! Gleam's approach to concurrency and its focus on type safety make it an interesting choice for Erlang/Elixir developers looking to leverage the benefits of static typing while maintaining the performance and concurrency model of the BEAM VM. The langu…

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About Long-Lived Code 42:08

1y ago42:08

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Fredrik wants to think about long-lived code. Lars is offended, Andreas only a little bit so. Are there other good software development practices out there? Other than the ones focusing on building something quickly? Practices for building software which lives on and is maintained for much longer than we seem to care to admit? Should we remove depe…

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Episode 71: Erlang and OTP with Ingela Anderton Andin and Kiko Fernandez-Reyes 53:38

1y ago53:38

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This is the second time that we've managed to reach deep into Ericsson and pull out some of the developers that work on the runtime and the language and the standard libraries that we all rely on. We have two members from the Erlang OTP team with us today! We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRad…

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About Fat Tuesday Buns 31:08

1y ago31:08

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The Saint Valentine's peak passed without issue. Andreas had time for semlor. Lars has opinions on semlor, and can imagine many possible improvements. Like having an apple. Or a pizza. Lars has had a nice influx of work, including hardware work using Nerves. Testing and very hackish hot code reloading are both included. Finally, some thoughts on Li…

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Episode 70: Brian Cardarella and LiveView Native 59:29

1y ago59:29

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The Beam Radio panel has a lively discussion with Brian Cardarella, CEO of DockYard about LiveView Native! DockYard: https://dockyard.com, @DockYard Brian Cardarella: Twitter @bcardarella We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox Keep up to date with our hosts on Twitter @akoutm…

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About things you built long ago that start doing weird things 28:21

1y ago28:21

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Andreas tells the story of a old system which suddenly exhibited a new and frightening bug. Lars shares similar experiences of things going wrong in new and novel ways. When things do go wrong, it is so nice to have supervision trees or other things which allow you to hear about problems, not to mention recover from them. Also covered are some stor…

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Episode 69: No Downtime with Brent Anderson 46:53

1y ago46:53

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In this episode, Brent Anderson shares his Elixir journey and discusses a major migration project he undertook at Knock. The team successfully upgraded their Postgres database from version 11.9 to 15.3 without any downtime. Brent highlights the advantages of using the Beam and Elixir in managing concurrent systems and the flexibility it provides. @…

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Episode 68: Katelynn Burns and Apprenticeship 46:56

1y ago46:56

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Show Notes: The panel talks about apprenticeship, curiosity and problem solving with Katelynn Burns! Email: [email protected] Github: k-burns ElixirConf 2023 Keynote: Motion Commotion: Motion Tracking with Bumblebee and LiveView https://youtu.be/zztzvQ1sNuU?si=8lCdyfbQ4MbXLqXp https://launchscout.com We want to connect with you! Twitter: @…

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Episode 67: Brian Cardarella - Elixir and Racing Sailboats 59:55

1+ y ago59:55

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The BeamRadio panel has a fascinating conversation about Elixir and sailboat racing with Brian Cardarella, CEO of DockYard. In this episode, Brian discusses his journey to Elixir and the innovative work happening at Dockyard. He shares the origin of the company's name, which is inspired by his passion for sailing. Brian explains the challenges and …

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About Data Pipelines 43:36

1+ y ago43:36

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Lars dove into data pipelines, and emerged bearing arrows and wishing for a lot fewer copies. What is there to think about regarding data pipelines, what is interesting about them? Which tools are out there, and why might you want to use them? Why all this talk about making fewer copies of data? What does Lars' current ideal pipeline look like, and…

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Episode 66: Chris McCord and Flame 56:24

1+ y ago56:24

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Show Notes: In this episode, Lars, Sophie, Steven, and special guest Chris McCord discuss the concepts of LiveView and Flame. They explore the problem with serverless architectures and how Flame aims to provide a solution. "Imagine if we could auto scale simply by wrapping any existing app code in a function and have that block of code run in a tem…

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Episode 65: Live From CodeBEAM in Berlin! 28:14

1+ y ago28:14

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Lars takes the stage with Saša Jurić and José Valim for a live recording of the pod at CodeBeam! CodeBEAM America March 7-8 2024 | San Francisco, CA & Virtual Tutorials: March 5-6 CodeBEAM Europe 2024 We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox Keep up to date with our hosts on Tw…

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Episode 64: Nerves and Elixir with Frank Hunleth 49:28

1+ y ago49:28

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The Beam Radio Panel talks Nerves Project and more with creator Frank Hunleth Connect with Frank @[email protected] Books: Build a Weather Station with Elixir and Nerves Build a Binary Clock with Elixir and Nerves We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox Keep up to date…

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About Fun With GenServers 1:06:17

1+ y ago1:06:17

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GenServers are fun! Andreas gives all the context. Things were learned, knowledge was aquired. You can do so much with GenServers, but make sure you have a good reason. If you don't watch out, this is where concurrency goes to die. Dynamic supervisors, and their children, are thoroughly considered. Also delved into is the mess other ecosystems make…

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Episode 63: Jonatan Männchen and OpenID 49:28

1+ y ago49:28

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Jonatan Männchen leads technology @ Sustema and is a member @ ErlEF security working group Look at oidcc on GitHub. Catch him at CodeBEAM in SF Find him on LinkedIn We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox Keep up to date with our hosts on Twitter @akoutmos @lawik @meryldakin @…

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Episode 62: Jenny Bramble Talks Testing 52:17

1+ y ago52:17

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The panel has an enlightening discussion with Jenny Bramble about testers and developers and how to make code better! Find Jenny Bramble at @jennydoesthings on Twitter See Jenny's ElixirConf 2023 talk: Black Box Techniques for Unit Tests We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox…

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About What Every Web App Needs But Your Developer Does Not Want You To Know About 30:31

1+ y ago30:31

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Every web app starts out fine, the tabula rasa of an unwritten BODY. But sooner or later you need users. And a million other things which live in trees. Also: email. And that layer between the controller and the database where things like fine-grained access control goes. I'd like to have an admin, please. Eventually, web apps grows up. And while a…

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About Code Nerds 36:11

1+ y ago36:11

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The software development industry is very much built for code nerds. It shouldn’t be. Many of us know many people who are really into coding. Not every working developer can, or even should, be though. Doesn't that create kind of a weird gap between professionals who live and breathe code both on and off work, and those who have a more balanced lif…

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Episode 61: Zach Daniel and the Ash Framework 57:28

1+ y ago57:28

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Welcome back to the panel Alex Koutmos! Alex, Lars and Zach have a lively discussion about the Ash Framework. Zach's ElixirConf23 talk: https://youtu.be/c4iou77kOFc?si=oHPKBv0x60VQXY6R Ash Framwork: https://www.ash-hq.org Ash Forum: https://elixirforum.com/c/elixir-framework-forums/ash-framework-forum/123 Zach on Twitter: @ZachSDaniel1 Ash Framewor…

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Episode 60: Guillaume Duboc and Types in Elixir 46:55

1+ y ago46:55

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Welcome to season 3 of BeamRadio! Kicking it off is a very exciting chat with Guillaume Duboc and the panel about types in Elixir. Bringing Types to Elixir by Giuseppe Castagna and Guillaume Duboc | ElixirConf EU 2023 https://youtu.be/gJJH7a2J9O8?si=sfEBGG27s0-0N3cd Guillaume's Website and contact info: https://www.irif.fr/users/gduboc/index We wan…

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About Databases 42:31

1+ y ago42:31

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Data has moved to a real database. Next, there may be brave attempts to add actual structure. Working with a real database is nice, as is not losing data, and being able to restore. Not everything is ephemeral, after all. Database service providers and cool stuff they do are discussed. The deal with Elastic is clarified. Finally, it is revealed whe…

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