Hey everyone, it’s your friendly global BEAM recruiter
As many of you will know, I try my best to come up with interesting & informative content for the BEAM community, without being technical myself it isn’t always easy but I’m lucky enough to lean on passionate contributors for help.
I’ve seen a number of folks asking for advice on where to find BEAM-specific content & whilst there are always helpful recommendations, I wanted to make myself useful by creating a ‘mega-list’ that can act as an ever-updating hub to use as a resource going forward.
This month I’ll be adding a number of popular blogs, then looking at Books in our February newsletter.I’d like to thank members of the Elixir Slack community for their help in compiling this list of blogs.
The Erlangelist - https://www.theerlangelist.com/
This is the blog of Sasa Juric, an long-term Elixir advocate & Author of Elixir in Action
Sasa’s own introduction to the blog reads: ‘In this blog you can read about Elixir, Erlang, and other programming related topics. You can subscribe to the feed, follow me on Twitter or fork me on GitHub.’
Fred Hebert - https://ferd.ca/
Here you can keep up with the musings of Fred Hebert, the author of the famous publication ‘Learn you some Erlang for great good’
Fred’s bio from the blog reads as follows: ‘Fred Hebert is a staff SRE at Honeycomb.io, caring for SLOs and error budgets, on-call health, alert hygiene, incident response, and operational readiness. He’s a published technical author who loves distributed systems, systems engineering and has a strong interest in resilience engineering and human factors.’
Chris Keathley - https://keathley.io/
This is the blog of Chris Keathley, an active member of the Elixir community, you can view his talks here
Chris’ Github bio reads as follows: I'm a software engineer, building high performance, resilient systems. I do almost all of my work in Elixir and Erlang and have built a number of open source libraries to make it easier to build and test high-scale, distributed systems.
Dockyard’s Elixir Blog
Most will be familiar with Dockyard as a prominent name within the Elixir community; Founder Brian Cardarella & his team share regular Elixir-focused blogs
Sean Moriarty - Seanmoriarty.com
About: I'm the author of Genetic Algorithms in Elixir and Machine Learning in Elixir. I'm also the co-creator of the Nx project, as well as a number of libraries in the Elixir ecosystem.
My interests include artificial intelligence, evolutionary algorithms, mathematics, and functional programming. You can check out my GitHub to see what projects I’m currently working on or follow me on Twitter to see what I’m up to.
Lars Wikman - Underjord
Developer, Blogger, Recruiter, Podcaster & more, Lars is a prominent figure within the BEAM community, it’s especially worth following him if you have an interest in Nerves
Elixir Merge - Elixirmerge.com
The folks at ElixirMerge promise to deliver fresh Elixir content into your inbox on a daily basis, I was skeptical at first as that seems like a huge ask, however their content is frequent & informative, definitely worth a look!
Peter Ullrich - Peterullrich.com
Peter’s intro reads as follows: I'm a Senior Elixir developer with a Psychology background, PragProg Author, Public Speaker and Blogger, and Founder. I'm passionate about Software Architecture, Product Engineering, and sharing knowledge.
Dashbit - https://dashbit.co/blog
Posts from Jose Valim, Wojtek Mach & Philip Sampaio amongst others, a vital subscription for any Elixir enthusaist.
Curiosum - https://curiosum.com/blog/category/elixir
A well-known consultancy within the Elixir market, the dev team at Curiosum take time to share what they’re working on
Erlang Solutions - https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/
Perhaps the company most responsible for bringing the community together, it’s rare to attend a BEAM-related conference without seeing a member of the ESL team. Erlang Solutions provide software & consultancy for companies that are powered by BEAM.
Their engineers & content team regularly post updates on the company blog.
Serokell - https://serokell.io/blog/elixir
Whilst a lot of their work is Haskell focused, Jonn & the team are still passionate about Elixir, you can view all of their Elixir content using the link above.
You can read our interview with Jonn from 2021 here: https://www.beamrec.com/forum/the-beam-it-live-forum/interview-with-jonn-mostovoy-serokell
I’ll be updating this this regularly, I’ve if missed your blog & you would like to be featured, please reach out on Hayden@beamrec.com