We strive to unite, inspire and connect the community, and with that in mind, we have created the Code BEAM Magazine, as part of preparations for the Code BEAM America conference in San Francisco in 2022.
And now, you can download it and read it as a warm up before Code BEAM America 2024!
Read our thought provoking interviews with 10 community members, who are doing an amazing job of spreading Erlang and Elixir, giving fantastic talks and developing and maintaining brilliant new features, frameworks and libraries.
You'll find texts by 5 of our 2024 Programme Committee Members inside!
Sophie DeBenedetto - Senior Software Engineer, Github
Saša Jurić - Elixir Mentor, Author of ‘Elixir in Action’
Andrea Leopardi - Elixir Core Team Member
My favourite high-traffic software is using Elixir as part of its backbone at KnowInk, where Elixir took part in making sure a third of all US voters were able to check in at the polls.
Employers should not hire for programming languages, unless they are hiring for a very short time horizon. Employers should recruit the ability to think and learn. Developers should learn to learn.
As engineers, we like to pretend that we're always choosing the best tool for the job, but I don't actually think that's often true: people use the tools that make them happy, and they contribute to the projects that make them feel valued.
Elixir is already a pretty enjoyable programming language; now imagine all the crazy ideas out there of things that still need to be added to or improved upon and that can be discovered by having more diverse participation in the community.
CODE BEAM America attendee
"I have learned so much from both speakers and attendees on how they scaled their systems to
service millions and millions of users. I would highly recommend attending Code BEAM America because I had such an amazing time and I learned a lot that I cannot wait to put into practice.