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Episode 19 — Inside the BEAM JIT: How Lukas Backström Made Erlang Faster #19 ▶
Inside the BEAM JIT: How Lukas Backström Made Erlang Faster
Jul 10, 2026 · 1h 01m
Lukas Backström — OTP team since 2009

In 2021, Erlang got something it had been promised for years: a Just-In-Time compiler. The person who built the first working prototype, spent years on failed experiments before it, and quietly shipped it to every Erlang and Elixir system on the planet is Lukas Backström — OTP team member since 2009, Francesco Cesarini's former student, and one of the most consequential engineers in the ecosystem that most people have never heard of.

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Jul 10, 2026 1h 01m
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