Lars Wikman

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

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Lars Wikman

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Technology

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www.beamrad.io

Latest episode

Dec 11, 2025

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Episodes

Episode 47: Security with Michael Lubas 02.03.2023

The Beam Radio Panel has a fascinating conversation about security in Elixir with Paraxial Founder, Michael Lubas. Show notes: Paraxial Michael's Elixir Conf Talk Elixir and Phoenix Security Training ElixirConf EU 2023 Twitter: @paraxialio 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 @akou...

Episode 46: Meryl Dakin: Building Healthy Elixir Teams 18.02.2023

The Beam Radio Panel talks with Meryl Dakin about building healthy Elixir teams and adopting Elixir. Meryl Daykin is a software enginner at Knock. Meryl's Codebeam Talk: https://codebeamamerica.com/participants/meryl-dakin/ Follow her on Twitter: @meryldakin We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox Keep up to date with our hos...

Episode 45: Dave Lucia and Elixir's Superpowers 02.02.2023

The Beam Radio Panel talks with Dave Lucia about Elixir's Superpower and the Elixir Community Dave's website: https://davelucia.com Twitter: @davydog187; Kept Elixirin’ CTO @bitfocrypto Mastodon: @ davydog187@genserver.social 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 @_StevenNunez @akou...

Episode 44: Flora Petterson Talks Nerves and Puppets 20.01.2023

The BeamRadio Panel talks with Flora Petterson, technical writer and puppeteer, about using Nerves to animate puppets. 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 @_StevenNunez @akoutmos @lawik @RedRapids @sm_debenedetto and on Mastodon @ steven@genserver.social @ akoutmos@fosstodon.org @...

Episode 43: Doing Well and Doing Good: Elixir Apprenticeships 05.01.2023

Show Notes: Apprenticeship Patterns https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/apprenticeship-patterns/9780596806842/ Contact info for guests: Andrew Ek: andrew.ek@launchscout.com / @ektastrophe (twitter) Chris Nelson: chris@launchscout.com / @superchris (twitter) We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox or to info@grox.io with subj...

Episode 42: Happy Holidays! 21.12.2022

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 @_StevenNunez @akoutmos @lawik @RedRapids @sm_debenedetto Sponsored by Groxio and Underjord

Episode 41: Membrane 19.12.2022

The Beam Radio panel talks with Mateusz Front, a lead architect at Membrane about all the cool BEAM things going on there. Mateusz Front: Twitter - @uusszz https://membrane.stream 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 @_StevenNunez @akoutmos @lawik @RedRapids @sm_debenedetto Sponsor...

Episode 40: Alex McLain Talks Nerves 30.11.2022

The BeamRadio panel has a lively discussion on Nerves, the BEAM and learning with Alex McLain Full Stack Engineering Video Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@amclain 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 @_StevenNunez @akoutmos @lawik @Re...

Episode 39: Bruce and the Great Loop 09.11.2022

Show Notes: Great Loop Info: https://www.greatloop.org Mobile Must Have Products: https://mobilemusthave.com https://www.peplinkworks.com/MAX-Mobile-Routers.asp https://www.peplink.com/products/max-transit-duo/ Alex's Dad's book about being a Sea Tow Captain: https://www.amazon.com/Rescue-Boat-Stories-Rescues-Adventures/dp/1952521963 GigCityElixir is coming back in person! May 19-20, 2023, Chattan...

Episode 38: BeamRadio Team Reflects on Chris McCord's LiveView Keynote 26.10.2022

Show Notes: Chris McCord's Keynote on LiveVeiw from ElixirConf 2022: https://youtu.be/9-rqBLjr5Eo CodeBeam discount code for 20% off tickets (both in-person and virtual) podcast listeners. The code is BEAMRADIO20. Ticket Link And don't forget to join hosts @smdebenedetto + @_StevenNunez at their virtual Mastering LiveView training Tuesday before the conference https://codebeamamerica.com/trainings...

Episode 37: Beam Radio: Talk Radio with Steven and Lars 12.10.2022

Show Notes https://github.com/message-db/message-db https://github.com/octosteve/estola https://github.com/octosteve/estola 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 @_StevenNunez @akoutmos @lawik @RedRapids @sm_debenedetto Sponsored by @GroxioLearning https://grox.io

Episode 36: Curiosity as a Superpower 21.09.2022

Show Notes: https://www.elixirnewbie.com/ https://smartlogic.io/podcast/elixir-wizards/ https://github.com/DockYard-Academy/beta_curriculum Email brooklin.myers@dockyard.com to get involved or learn about joining the cohort! If you want to write a book, message Sophie on twitter! @sm_debenedetto We want to connect with you! Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox Keep up to...

Episode 35: eqWAlizer with Ilya Klyuchnikov 31.08.2022

This week the BeamRadio Panel talks about eqWAlizer Ilya Klyuchnikov. Show Notes: Ilya's Twitter: https://twitter.com/lambdamix Project Github: https://github.com/WhatsApp/eqwalizer 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 @_StevenNunez @akoutmos @lawik @RedRapids @sm_debenedetto Spons...

Episode 34: Catching Up with the Beam Radio Team 22.08.2022

The panel discusses MJML EEX, Rust, Surface and LiveView and more! Show Notes: https://hex.pm/packages/mjml_eex What Other Languages Can Learn From BEAM: A Ruby Case Study | Steven Nunez |Code BEAM V America 21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcvijP2QIx0&feature=emb_logo Elixir Conf 2022 Training: https://2022.elixirconf.com/training#training Build a Weather Station: https://pragprog.com/title...

Episode 33: Beam Radio Talks Elixir with Bowery Farms 08.06.2022

https://twitter.com/kevmacaroni kmcnamee@boweryfarming.com nsanford@boweryfarming.com https://twitter.com/sanford_nick https://codesync.global/conferences/code-beam-america-2022/#call-for-talks 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 @_StevenNunez @akoutmos @lawik @RedRapids @sm_deben...

Episode 32: Most Excellent and Important Wisdom for Professional Developers 05.05.2022

Communication? Productivity? Managing pressure or stress? Making impressions? Teamwork or collaboration? Practicing and learning? The Beam Radio Panel tackles the question "What is the most important advice or learnings you've had in your career as professional developers?" We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox Keep up to d...

Episode 31: Upping Your Game - Elixir Resources 14.04.2022

The BeamRadio panel talks about the best resources for learning Elixir and upping your game! Show notes below link to conference talks and other resources. 17:01:12 https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwj9-aOL2v_2AhVIJEQIHScwBXsQwqsBegQIAhAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DJvBT4XBdoUE&usg=AOvVaw2sTWyTLEZv_2GrxjhIpP...

Episode 30: LiveView JS and LiveBeats 05.04.2022

The release of LiveVIew JS commands is unlocking a lot of sophisticated client-side functionality with very little overhead. Just like you'd expect from LiveView, the new JS command interface, combined with JS hooks, makes it possible to implement advanced JS interactions in a way that is sane and elegant. This is something that I think many people considered to be the missing piece of LiveView--I...

Episode 29: LiveBook and Other Fun Projects 23.03.2022

Show Notes: Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox to win tickets to Empex!! Details in the podcast! Launching a new book https://elixirpatterns.dev/ PromEx 1.7.1 release https://github.com/akoutmos/prom_ex (Shout out to Parker and Shannon for funding the GrafanaAgent work) Litestream 0.1.0 release https://github.com/akoutmos/litestream ExServer 0.2.0 release https://github...

Episode 28: Rabbit MQ Streams 09.03.2022

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....

Episode 27: Elixir Show and Tell 23.02.2022

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 We want to connect with you! Twi...

Episode 26: Alex Talks Erlang 02.02.2022

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-editi...

Episode 25: People Work Here! A Chat with Amos King on Agile 11.01.2022

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 We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox Kee...

Episode 24: BeamRadio Round Robin Ask Me Anything with the Hosts 28.12.2021

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 We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @Bea...

Episode 23: Event Streaming on The BEAM with Jeffrey Matthias and Andrea Leopardi 16.11.2021

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 We want to conn...

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