About

The people who make the show.

We started this because the interesting BEAM stories were being told in hallway tracks and never written down. So we record them instead.

Allen Wyma

Co-host

Allen Wyma runs Plangora, a Hong Kong software consultancy, and has been building production systems in Elixir, Phoenix, LiveView, Flutter and Rust for over a decade. He is one of the most prolific hosts in developer podcasting. He co-hosted Elixir Mix, hosts Rustacean Station, and created Flying High with Flutter, which together total hundreds of conversations with the people building modern software. On BEAM There, Done That, Allen keeps the conversation moving and makes sure every listener can follow, turning deep technical answers into lessons anyone can take back to their own codebase. You can contact him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allenwyma/

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Anca Trusca

Marketing

Anca Trusca has spent more than a decade in marketing for software companies, with a focus on data, growth, and community. She holds a PhD in social marketing and behaviour change, and she turns audience insight into strategy that finds the people who need technical content and turns them into customers. She has been active in marketing tech conferences, including GOTO, QCon, Code BEAM and Elixir Conf. Anca works hard behind the scenes on BEAM There, Done That, shaping how each episode reaches the Elixir, Erlang, and wider BEAM community and actively advising on content. You can contact her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ancatrusca/

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Francesco Cesarini

Co-host

Francesco Cesarini founded Erlang Solutions and has spent three decades building, teaching, and championing the BEAM. He started as an intern at Ericsson's Computer Science Laboratory in 1995, where he worked on the first release of OTP, and went on to co-author Erlang Programming and Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP for O'Reilly. He lectures at Oxford University and serves on the board of the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation. You will also find him doing early stage investments in companies active in the Erlang Ecosystem. On the show, he brings the long view: the history behind the runtime, and the production lessons that only surface after years in the field. You can contact him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/francescocesarini/

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The guests

38 people

How an episode gets made

  1. 01
    You suggest it

    Most episodes start as a note from a listener with a specific production story.

  2. 02
    We prep properly

    We read the code, the RFCs and the postmortems before we press record.

  3. 03
    One take

    Ninety minutes, video, minimal editing. Tangents stay in if they are good.

  4. 04
    Notes and links

    Chapters, transcript and every reference, published with the episode.