Thinking Elixir 263: BEAM Scales from Nano to BBC Big

News includes the BEAM runtime fitting into just 16MB for the GRiSP Nano prototype, the BBC using Elixir to serve most of their web and mobile traffic, GenStage's pull-based design delivering 50% performance improvements, a new PDF data extraction library that leverages Python through PythonX, AppSignal's guide to deploying Phoenix with Kamal, an Elixir School lesson on embedding Lua in applications, Peter Solnica's new inflection library for word transformations, Fly.io announcing Docker Compose compatibility for multi-container deployments, and the full ElixirConf 2025 agenda going live with discount tickets available, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/263

Elixir Community News

• https://paraxial.io/ – Paraxial.io is sponsoring today's show! Sign up for a free trial of Paraxial.io today and mention Thinking Elixir when you schedule a demo for a special offer.
• https://www.grisp.org/blog/posts/2025-06-11-grisp-nano-codebeam-sto – GRiSP Nano prototype shows BEAM can run in just 16MB of memory
• https://grisp.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/grisp-2 – GRiSP 2 tiny computer available now for BEAM applications
• https://bsky.app/profile/ettomatic.bsky.social/post/3lua7lpcxi22s – Bluesky post announcing BBC's ElixirConf EU talk
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e99QDd0_C20 – How Elixir Powers the BBC From PoC to Production at Scale by Ettore Berardi
• https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Senior-Software-Engineer/24846-en_GB/ – BBC job posting for Senior Software Engineer using Elixir
• https://x.com/accomazzo/status/1945622634731114801 – GenStage's pull-based design explanation with 6-minute video showing 50% speed improvement
• https://x.com/nelsonmestevao/status/1947087502902231412 – X post announcing the pdf_extractor library for data extraction from PDFs
• https://github.com/nelsonmestevao/pdf_extractor/ – PDF data extraction library for Elixir
• https://hexdocs.pm/pdf_extractor/readme.html – Documentation for pdf_extractor library
• https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber – Python pdfplumber library that pdf_extractor leverages
• https://github.com/livebook-dev/pythonx – PythonX library for seamless Python integration with Elixir
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/244 – Interview with Jonatan Kłosko about PythonX
• https://blog.appsignal.com/2025/06/10/deploying-phoenix-applications-with-kamal.html – AppSignal article on deploying Phoenix applications with Kamal
• https://kamal-deploy.org/ – Kamal deployment tool - Capistrano for Containers
• https://github.com/elixirschool/school_house – Elixir School open source repository
• https://elixirschool.com/en/lessons/misc/lua – Elixir School lesson on embedding Lua in Elixir applications
• https://hexdocs.pm/lua/ – Elixir Lua package documentation
• https://github.com/tv-labs/lua – Elixir friendly wrapper around luerl Erlang package
• https://github.com/rvirding/luerl – Luerl Erlang package for Lua integration
• https://bsky.app/profile/solnic.dev/post/3luaizmyjvt2c – Peter Solnica announces new Inflection library on Bluesky
• https://github.com/solnic/drops_inflector – Drops Inflector library for word inflections in Elixir
• https://bsky.app/profile/fly.io/post/3lt4bjcouwn2y – Fly.io announces Docker Compose compatibility
• https://community.fly.io/t/docker-compose-compatibility-the-journey-begins/25285 – Fly.io community post about Docker Compose compatibility journey
• https://community.fly.io/t/using-containers-with-flyctl/24729 – Guide on using containers with flyctl
• https://fly.io/docs/machines/guides-examples/multi-container-machines/ – Fly.io documentation for multi-container machines
• https://elixirstream.dev/gendiff – David's Elixir gendiff project
• https://elixirconf.com/ – ElixirConf 2025 full agenda now live
• https://ti.to/elixirconf/2025/discount/ThinkingElixir – ElixirConf tickets with ThinkingElixir discount code for 10% off

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