November 25, 2025

Exploring the Evolution of BEAM

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The presentation takes the audience on a personal journey through the history of BEAM, the Erlang virtual machine that serves as the foundation for not only Erlang but also Elixir and Gleam. The speaker shares insights gathered from nearly three decades of involvement with BEAM, highlighting significant milestones that have shaped its development from a fast but memory-intensive VM to a solid base for various languages running on it.

Elixir Community Updates on Hot Code Upgrades and AI Development

In this episode, Mark Ericksen discusses several significant updates within the Elixir community, including Chris McCord's FlyDeploy for zero-downtime upgrades.

Nov 18, 2025

Understanding Distributed Elixir for Simpler Applications

This talk discusses how to leverage the distributed capabilities of Erlang/Elixir for easier application development.

Nov 18, 2025

Adopting Elixir in Established Systems

This talk discusses the challenges and opportunities of adopting Elixir in an organization with existing tooling, presented by the speakers from the Zappi team.

Nov 18, 2025