Why I wrote the BEAM book (2025)

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73 points | by zenincognito 1 day ago

6 comments

  • neya 6 hours ago
    Oh wow, I never knew Klarna uses BEAM. I always thought BEAM is vastly underrated and it's even hard for me to convince clients of showing how powerful it (Elixir/BEAM) really is, especially when they're already on something like NodeJS. This will be a nice reference to use in conversations with future prospects.
    • worthless-trash 2 hours ago
      I'm interested to see how this goes, I find it difficult to convince anyone to change from the herp-derp status quo.
  • ValtteriL 1 hour ago
    I love Erlang, Elixir, and BEAM by extension. Lucky to have been forced to learn it at KTH.
  • oivaksef 2 hours ago
    There will be winners in this new AI age, and they will be the ones that are technically better, rather than the most popular or convenient for software engineers
    • thibaut_barrere 1 hour ago
      I use Elixir (BEAM-based), with LLMs daily, on a fast growing site (current pace is 5 billion HTTP queries per year on a single front node).

      Elixir is well handled by LLMs at this point, and we keep the “easy to scale and maintain” aspect (operational characteristics of the runtime are very good).

      I can safely say that total cost of ownership is excellent.

      • valzam 47 minutes ago
        I think that's the first time I see someone use qpy...
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