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 76 Episodes.
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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
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Episode 17: Elixir Deployment with Hubert Łępicki
August 24th, 2021 | Season 1 | 37 mins 48 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
Josh Adams and the team talk with Hubert about all the options available for deploying Elixir applications and some Keto info along the way.
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Episode 16: The Panel talks Elixir with Quinn Wilton
August 10th, 2021 | Season 1 | 54 mins 43 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
The Beam Radio team talks Elixir and Erlang with Quinn Wilton. Elixir make the hard things easy according to Quinn. Come hear why!
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Episode 15: Grok It! Learning to Code
July 27th, 2021 | Season 1 | 44 mins 54 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
Steven, Lars and Alex join forces to just discuss best approaches to learning to code.
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Episode 14: Sneaking Elixir Into Your Org With Nikos Maroulis and Joel Kemp
July 13th, 2021 | Season 1 | 47 mins 46 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
Nikos and Joel share their Elixir success story at Spotify and give us some pointers on how to pitch Elixir to skeptical tech leaders.
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Episode 13: Lars and Contexts
June 29th, 2021 | Season 1 | 49 mins 37 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
Lars and the BeamRad.io panel discuss contexts and take on come complex issues and break them down.
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Episode 12: Punking the Servers with Bryan Hunter
June 15th, 2021 | Season 1 | 58 mins 30 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
The Beam Radio Team talks with Bryan Hunter about what the BEAM can do!
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Episode 11: Marlus Saraiva and Plain. Old. LiveView
June 1st, 2021 | Season 1 | 56 mins 18 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
The Beam Radio team talks with Marlus Saraiva Software Engineer at @dashbit, Creator of Broadway, ElixirSense and Surface.
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CLIP from Episode 11: Why Marlus Saraiva loves FP
May 27th, 2021 | Season 1 | 1 min 14 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
We all love FP. Here's a great snippet from Episode #11 on why Marlus Saravia loves it too.
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CLIP from Episode 11: Learn Multiple Programming Languages
May 27th, 2021 | Season 1 | 35 secs
beam, computer programming, elixir, functional programming
Marlus Saraiva, Creator of Broadway, ElixirSense and Surface talks about the benefits of learning multiple languages. Snippet from Episode #11