The BEAM for Developers

A full-day, hands-on training exploring the Erlang Runtime System's internals. The course combines theory with practical coding labs, covering process architecture, memory management, messaging systems, scheduling, and debugging techniques.

Participants build a mini chat server, analyze system behavior, and learn to identify performance bottlenecks in production BEAM systems.

Format: 1 day in-person training (9:00–17:00 CET)

Topics covered:

• Process-oriented architecture for reliable systems
• Memory management, garbage collection, heaps, and stacks
• Message passing and signaling mechanisms
• Concurrency, schedulers, reductions, and SMP systems
• System tracing, profiling, and production observability
• Performance patterns and common anti-patterns
• Memory leak detection and incident analysis

Prerequisites: Basic experience with Elixir, Erlang, Gleam, or another BEAM language. Participants should bring a laptop with the BEAM and their preferred language pre-installed.