Why the BEAM?

What makes it so special?

• Immutability
  • Didn’t appreciate it in college
  • Can’t live without it in industry
• Everything runs inside of a process
  • Processes are fairly scheduled across all of your cores
• Concurrency and parallelism as a fundamental run time construct
• Shared nothing concurrency via message passing
• OTP gives us a framework for building concurrent and parallel applications
• Clustering at the run time layer

The Soul of Erlang and Elixir - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBT4XBdoUE

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