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 22: Total World Domination 02.11.2021

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 b...

Episode 21: Elixir and Productivity 19.10.2021

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 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 @_Steve...

Episode 20: Living with Elixir, Jerod Santo 05.10.2021

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 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox Keep up to date wi...

Episode 19: That’s not a problem. That’s success! 21.09.2021

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 We want to connect with y...

Episode 18: Code Heresy with Chris Keathley 07.09.2021

Show Notes: Chris Keathley's Keynote from Gig City Elixir 2019: https://youtu.be/J_dnXZUZc4w Find Chris on Twitter: @ChrisKeathley and blog: https://keathley.io 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 @knewter @lawik @RedRapids @sm_debenedetto Sponsored by @Gro...

Episode 17: Elixir Deployment with Hubert Łępicki 24.08.2021

Show Notes: http://digitalocean.com/ https://www.gigalixir.com https://www.heroku.com https://render.com Follow our guest on Hubert Łępicki Twitter - @hubertlepicki 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 @knewter @lawik @RedRapids @sm_debenedetto Sponsored by...

Episode 16: The Panel talks Elixir with Quinn Wilton 10.08.2021

The Beam Radio team talks Elixir and Erlang with Quinn Wilton. Follow her on Twitter at @wilton_quinn. Links mentioned in the episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhheJ5zsXBQ https://ubf.github.io/ubf/ubf-user-guide.en.html https://github.com/keathley/mentat We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox Keep up to date with our...

Episode 15: Grok It! Learning to Code 27.07.2021

Show notes: https://akoutmos.com/post/actor-model-genserver-app/ https://akoutmos.com/post/actor-model-genserver-app-two/ https://twitter.com/akoutmos/status/1313886807151517698 https://underjord.io/a-telegram-bot-in-elixir.html https://underjord.io/getting-started-with-petal.html https://underjord.io/promex-livestream.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7PR-cI89ag&list=PLk_-dV_ai0LHPyQyAi9h...

Episode 14: Sneaking Elixir Into Your Org With Nikos Maroulis and Joel Kemp 13.07.2021

Convincing your company and co-workers to bet on the BEAM can sometimes be tricky. Decision makers will often want to bet on something more mainstream even when it isn't the best tool for the job. Luckily, Nikos and Joel agreed to tell us how to properly pitch the BEAM and how to build grassroots communities within organizations. You won't want to miss this one!! Follow our guests on Twitter: @nik...

Episode 13: Lars and Contexts 29.06.2021

RabbitMQ Summit July 13-14, 2021 https://rabbitmqsummit.com We have two free tickets to @RabbitMQSummit to give away to our listeners! Submit your questions on all things #beam to our hosts by tweeting @BeamRadio1 with #processmailbox and we'll answer your question on the air and enter you to win a free @RabbitMQSummit ticket! SpawnFest 2021 Sept 18-19, 2021 https://spawnfest.org Show Links: https...

Episode 12: Punking the Servers with Bryan Hunter 15.06.2021

The Beam Radio Team has a great time chatting with Bryan Hunter (@bryan_hunter) about what the BEAM can do and Bryan shares wisdom from a long career in coding. The team also discusses a listener question to the #ProcessMailbox about whether or not Elixir is a good first language to learn. Don't miss this! We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRa...

Episode 11: Marlus Saraiva and Plain. Old. LiveView 01.06.2021

The Beam Radio team talks with Marlus Saraiva Software Engineer at @dashbit, Creator of Broadway, ElixirSense and Surface. Imporant links: https://surface-ui.org/ https://github.com/surface-ui/surface https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPu-P97-cbE https://dashbit.co/blog https://alchemyconf.com Twitter: @BeamRadio1 and @MarlusSaraiva Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox Keep...

CLIP from Episode 11: Learn Multiple Programming Languages 27.05.2021

Guest: @MarlusSaraiva, Creator of Broadway, ElixirSense and Surface talks about benefits of learning multiple programming languages. Hear the full conversation on episode #11. 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 @knewter @lawik @RedRapids @sm_debenedetto Sp...

CLIP from Episode 11: Why Marlus Saraiva loves FP 27.05.2021

We all love FP. Here's a great snippet from Episode #11 on why Marlus Saravia loves it too. Guest: @MarlusSaraiva Creator of Broadway, ElixirSense and Surface Hear the full convo on Episode 11! 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 @knewter @lawik @RedRapids...

Episode 10: Teaching and Evangelizing Elixir and FP 18.05.2021

We talk with Chris Miller and Andre Bryan, hosts of the YouTube channel Coding Cave, about their experiences teaching and evangelizing functional programming. We learn how Chris got interested in Elixir and inspired Andre to come along for the adventure, and the why and how of teaching FP. With some many educators on our panel, this episode was definitely a lively one! Coding Cave episode, "Conver...

Episode 9: Bruce Tate and Frank Hunleth Talk Nerves 04.05.2021

Bruce Tate and the panel talk with Frank Hunleth, Co-Creator of Nerves Project, about the fun of hardware and how Elixir is a perfect fit. @NervesProject @fhunleth 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 @knewter @lawik @RedRapids @sm_debenedetto Sponsored by @...

Episode 8: Alex Koutmos and Parker Selbert Discuss Oban 20.04.2021

https://github.com/sorentwo/oban https://getoban.pro https://speakerdeck.com/sorentwo/the-architecture-of-oban https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/sql-notify.html https://sidekiq.org 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 @knewter @lawik @RedRapids @sm_debened...

Our Youngest Contributor 16.04.2021

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 @knewter @lawik @RedRapids @sm_debenedetto Sponsored by @GroxioLearning

Episode 7: Lars Wikman and Building it Right 06.04.2021

In this episode Lars introduces the topic of building things the right way and brings up his perspective on what the BEAM and Elixir are doing well. We get into the cultural aspects, the design and the layering of brick upon brick that makes this community and ecosystem special. Why is it that people build so ambitiously on the BEAM? Then Sophie asks for zero-preparation podcast recommendations. C...

Episode 6: Steven Nunez Talks Ruby and the BEAM 23.03.2021

We explore Ruby's new actor model implementation, discuss where it shines, and where it can learn from the BEAM. It also includes guest cameo from our youngest listener. Links The Free Lunch is Over: http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm CRC in Elixir: https://redrapids.medium.com/learning-elixir-its-all-reduce-204d05f52ee7 Concurrency in Java: https://www.amazon.com/Java-Concurrency...

Episode 5: Bruce Tate and Turtles All the Way Down 11.03.2021

For this week's episode, we talk to Bruce Tate, member of the Elixir community since the language turned 1.0. As one of the main people behind Elixir's publishing scene, Bruce was the editor of the ElixirSource line of books for the Pragmatic Bookshelf through most of its history. He is a coauthor for Programming Phoenix, Designing Elixir Systems with OTP, and Adopting Elixir, and the chief author...

Episode 4: Sophie DeBenedetto and LiveView and the Future of Single-Page Apps 23.02.2021

Sophie and Steven's upcoming workshop at Code BEAM V: Shipping Greenfield Elixir in a Legacy World Dashbit's Broadway library Concurrent Data Processing in Elixir, a new PragProg book by Svilen Gospodinov ElixirConf 2015 Keynote: The Pendulum by Bruce Tate José Valim's talk on What Elixir is About Sasa Juric’s Solid Ground talk Lars' post on the PETAL stack Bruce's post on PETAL We want to connect...

Episode 3: Alex Koutmos and Observability 23.02.2021

In this episode of Beam Radio, Alex Koutmos takes the hot seat as the panel learns about Alex's programming roots, his personal Elixir journey, and what excites him about programming on the Beam. Alex then goes on to discuss the importance of application observability and how the Beam (and specifically the projects in the Beam-Telemetry GitHub organization) allow you to easily achieve application...

Episode 2: Josh Adams and Erlang Languages 23.02.2021

DBA - This is my product and software consultancy. We build remarkable software with our partners. Birmingham Elixir - People are saying it's like the "Austin City Limits" of remote Elixir meetups llaisdy/beam_languages Erlang's ssh application SSH subsystems lasp-lang - a programming model for synchronization-free computations erleans - Erleans is a framework for building distributed applications...

Episode 1: Lars Wikman and the BEAM 23.02.2021

In this first episode of Beam Radio we give a brief presentation of the hosts. You can also read more about us on beamrad.io . As we go through the episodes we will give a deeper introduction to each host so you know a bit about who we are. For this first episode we introduce Lars Wikman and then he gets to set the topic. This episode's topic will be the idea that the BEAM can be your entire appli...

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