Alex Koutmos
Co-Host of Beam Radio
Alex Koutmos is currently a Senior Software Engineer working at Boulevard. He has been working professionally with Elixir since 2016 and was hooked on the BEAM since reading Elixir in Action by Saša Jurić in 2015. When Alex is not programming or reading books, he is playing Nintendo Switch with his two beautiful daughters. Alex and his wife also enjoy taking their girls and Springer Spaniel George out on hikes all across the USA whenever the chance arises.
Alex Koutmos is also the author of quite a few Elixir blog posts that he publishes on https://akoutmos.com. He also publishes regular Elixir Tips on Twitter under the #myelixirstatus hashtag. He has also maintains a few packages on Hex.pm and is currently obsessed with taking Elixir application observability to the next level with his latest project PromEx.
Alex Koutmos has hosted 85 Episodes.
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Episode 33: Beam Radio Talks Elixir with Bowery Farms
June 8th, 2022 | Season 2 | 43 mins 51 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
The BeamRadio panel talks with the Bowery Farms team Kevin McNamee and Nick Sanford about how they use Elixir.
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Episode 32: Most Excellent and Important Wisdom for Professional Developers
May 5th, 2022 | Season 2 | 50 mins 49 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
The Beam Radio Panel tackles the question "What is the most important advice or learnings you've had in your career as professional developers?"
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Episode 31: Upping Your Game - Elixir Resources
April 14th, 2022 | Season 2 | 43 mins 48 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
The BeamRadio panel talks about the best resources for learning Elixir and upping your game!
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Episode 30: LiveView JS and LiveBeats
April 5th, 2022 | Season 2 | 37 mins 56 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
Join the panel as they discuss some chainsaw therapy as well as LiveView JS and LiveBeats!
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Episode 29: LiveBook and Other Fun Projects
March 23rd, 2022 | Season 2 | 54 mins 11 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
Join Alex as he facilitates a discussion with the hosts about everyone's side projects. It's a great peek into what the hosts are working on!
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Episode 28: Rabbit MQ Streams
March 9th, 2022 | Season 2 | 53 mins 35 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
Join the Beam Radio panel as they talk RabbitMQ Streams with Arnaud Cogoluègnes and Karl Nilsson, RabbitMQ Core Team Members
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Episode 27: Elixir Show and Tell
February 23rd, 2022 | Season 2 | 50 mins 10 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
For a long time, Steven remembers using Elixir was theoretical, or he didn't get to use a cool feature the BEAM had to offer. He loved hearing about all the things others were doing with it. Now there's so much with LiveView, and Nerves... it's time to showcase cool projects we think the BEAM makes possible. Welcome to Elixir Show and Tell!
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Episode 26: Alex Talks Erlang
February 2nd, 2022 | Season 2 | 37 mins 9 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
Join the BeamRadio Panel as Alex hosts a discussion of Elixir's roots in Erlang.
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Episode 25: People Work Here! A Chat with Amos King on Agile
January 11th, 2022 | Season 2 | 46 mins 27 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
Season 2! This week the panel talks Agile development with the one and only Amos King of Binary Noggin.
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Episode 24: BeamRadio Round Robin Ask Me Anything with the Hosts
December 28th, 2021 | Season 1 | 44 mins 19 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
Today the hosts ask each other questions - topics covered include The Great Loop, LiveBook, live streaming and more!
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Episode 23: Event Streaming on The BEAM with Jeffrey Matthias and Andrea Leopardi
November 16th, 2021 | Season 1 | 56 mins 24 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
We're joined by Community engineers and Testing Elixir co-authors Jeffrey and Andrea who tell us about how they build an event-driven system with the dream-team of Elixir.
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Episode 22: Total World Domination
November 2nd, 2021 | Season 1 | 47 mins 51 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
Elixir is going to rule the world. The abstractions are right, the foundation is right and most folks aren't fighting with the tooling and the language and the runtime to achieve amazing goals. The panel discusses LiveView, Nerves, Axon Nx Machine Learning and the BEAM ecosystem.
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Episode 21: Elixir and Productivity
October 19th, 2021 | Season 1 | 52 mins 24 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
Alex and the panel of hosts dive into the question of what makes the Elixir language so dang productive.
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Episode 20: Living with Elixir, Jerod Santo
October 5th, 2021 | Season 1 | 43 mins 22 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
This week the panel chats with Jerod Santo of Changelog.com about his experince with Elixir. Lars takes the helm leading the discussion.
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Episode 19: That’s not a problem. That’s success!
September 21st, 2021 | Season 1 | 57 mins 37 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
Lars and the BeamRad.io team discuss what we think Elixir could, should or will do in the future.
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Episode 18: Code Heresy with Chris Keathley
September 7th, 2021 | Season 1 | 1 hr 4 mins
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
The BeamRadio Team talks Elixir, Telemetry, Contexts and Code Heresy with Chris Keathley