{"podcast":{"title":"BEAM There, Done That","slug":"beam-there-done-that-7725251","podcast_index_feed_id":7725251,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10f787368/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beamtheredonethat","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/45445194/45445194-1772070691483-c305179ad8028.jpg","author":"Plangora","episode_count":22,"summary":"BEAM There, Done That is a podcast about building real systems with Elixir, Erlang, and the BEAM. We’ve built it before — distributed systems, fault‑tolerant services, event pipelines, real‑time apps, production nightmares, and the supervision trees that saved them. Each episode dives into practical lessons from shipping software on the BEAM: architecture decisions, scaling challenges, operational failures, and the patterns that actually work. No hype. No theory without scars. Just hard‑won experience from engineers who’ve been there.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-31T20:20:07.510585+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beam-there-done-that-7725251"},"episode":{"title":"Redistributing Our Systems. Erlang's Enduring Lessons for Local-First","slug":"redistributing-our-systems-erlang-s-enduring-lessons-for-local-first","published_at":"2026-04-10T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beam-there-done-that-7725251/redistributing-our-systems-erlang-s-enduring-lessons-for-local-first","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beam-there-done-that-7725251","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beamtheredonethat/episodes/Redistributing-Our-Systems--Erlangs-Enduring-Lessons-for-Local-First-e3hc7r0","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10f787368/podcast/play/117890336/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-3-3%2F421322806-44100-2-e4581e9d23e19.mp3","summary":"Erlang was designed for reliability in telephone switches, but its core principles — isolated processes, message passing, “let it crash supervision — anticipated problems we’re only now grappling with at scale. Four decades later, these ideas are finding new expression in local-first software: apps that work offline, sync peer-to-peer, and put users back in control of their data.In this podcast, Robert Virding (Erlang co-creator) and Brooke Zelenka trace the intellectual lineage from telecom switches to CRDTs and capabilities. They’ll explore how Erlang’s fault-tolerance model maps onto modern challenges, distributed security, and systems that continue to work offline. The cloud promised to simplify distributed systems; instead concentrated in a handful of companies; perhaps the answers we need were hiding in a language designed for phone switches all along.","meta_description":"Erlang was designed for reliability in telephone switches, but its core principles — isolated processes, message passing, “let it crash supervision — anti…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3128,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/beam-there-done-that-7725251/episodes/redistributing-our-systems-erlang-s-enduring-lessons-for-local-first/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beam-there-done-that-7725251/redistributing-our-systems-erlang-s-enduring-lessons-for-local-first.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}