Elixir

• Apr 12, 2026 Elixir and the BEAM: Concurrency That Actually Scales

  A deep technical guide to Elixir and the BEAM VM — processes, OTP supervisors, GenServer, Phoenix LiveView, Ecto, distributed nodes, and an honest assessment of where the Erlang VM dominates and where it doesn't.

• Apr 12, 2026 Gleam: Type Safety on the BEAM

  Gleam brings Hindley-Milner type inference and ML-family ergonomics to the Erlang VM — fault-tolerant concurrency, actor-model supervision trees, and zero-null error handling, with JavaScript as a second compile target. A deep technical look at the language, its ecosystem, and when to reach for it over Elixir.