263: 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 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/263) Elixir Community News https://paraxial.io/ (https://paraxial.io/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_campaign=thinkingelixir-july2025) – 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 (https://www.grisp.org/blog/posts/2025-06-11-grisp-nano-codebeam-sto?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – GRiSP Nano prototype shows BEAM can run in just 16MB of memory https://grisp.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/grisp-2 (https://grisp.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/grisp-2?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – GRiSP 2 tiny computer available now for BEAM applications https://bsky.app/profile/ettomatic.bsky.social/post/3lua7lpcxi22s (https://bsky.app/profile/ettomatic.bsky.social/post/3lua7lpcxi22s?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Bluesky post announcing BBC's ElixirConf EU talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e99QDd0_C20 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e99QDd0_C20?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – 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/ (https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Senior-Software-Engineer/24846-en_GB/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – BBC job posting for Senior Software Engineer using Elixir https://x.com/accomazzo/status/1945622634731114801 (https://x.com/accomazzo/status/1945622634731114801?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – GenStage's pull-based design explanation with 6-minute video showing 50% speed improvement https://x.com/nelsonmestevao/status/1947087502902231412 (https://x.com/nelsonmestevao/status/1947087502902231412?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – X post announcing the pdf_extractor library for data extraction from PDFs https://github.com/nelsonmestevao/pdf_extractor/ (https://github.com/nelsonmestevao/pdf_extractor/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – PDF data extraction library for Elixir https://hexdocs.pm/pdf_extractor/readme.html (https://hexdocs.pm/pdf_extractor/readme.html?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Documentation for pdf_extractor library https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber (https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Python pdfplumber library that pdf_extractor leverages https://github.com/livebook-dev/pythonx (https://github.com/livebook-dev/pythonx?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – PythonX library for seamless Python integration with Elixir https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/244 (https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/244?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Interview with Jonatan Kłosko about PythonX https://blog.appsignal.com/2025/06/10/deploying-phoenix-applications-with-kamal.html (https://blog.appsignal.com/2025/06/10/deploying-phoenix-applications-with-kamal.html?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – AppSignal article on deploying Phoenix applications with Kamal https://kamal-deploy.org/ (https://kamal-deploy.org/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Kamal deployment tool - Capistrano for Containers https://github.com/elixirschool/school_house (https://github.com/elixirschool/school_house?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Elixir School open source repository https://elixirschool.com/en/lessons/misc/lua (https://elixirschool.com/en/lessons/misc/lua?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Elixir School lesson on embedding Lua in Elixir applications https://hexdocs.pm/lua/ (https://hexdocs.pm/lua/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Elixir Lua package documentation https://github.com/tv-labs/lua (https://github.com/tv-labs/lua?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Elixir friendly wrapper around luerl Erlang package https://github.com/rvirding/luerl (https://github.com/rvirding/luerl?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Luerl Erlang package for Lua integration https://bsky.app/profile/solnic.dev/post/3luaizmyjvt2c (https://bsky.app/profile/solnic.dev/post/3luaizmyjvt2c?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Peter Solnica announces new Inflection library on Bluesky https://github.com/solnic/drops_inflector (https://github.com/solnic/drops_inflector?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Drops Inflector library for word inflections in Elixir https://bsky.app/profile/fly.io/post/3lt4bjcouwn2y (https://bsky.app/profile/fly.io/post/3lt4bjcouwn2y?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Fly.io announces Docker Compose compatibility https://community.fly.io/t/docker-compose-compatibility-the-journey-begins/25285 (https://community.fly.io/t/docker-compose-compatibility-the-journey-begins/25285?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Fly.io community post about Docker Compose compatibility journey https://community.fly.io/t/using-containers-with-flyctl/24729 (https://community.fly.io/t/using-containers-with-flyctl/24729?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Guide on using containers with flyctl https://fly.io/docs/machines/guides-examples/multi-container-machines/ (https://fly.io/docs/machines/guides-examples/multi-container-machines/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Fly.io documentation for multi-container machines https://elixirstream.dev/gendiff (https://elixirstream.dev/gendiff?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – David's Elixir gendiff project https://elixirconf.com/ (https://elixirconf.com/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – ElixirConf 2025 full agenda now live https://ti.to/elixirconf/2025/discount/ThinkingElixir (https://ti.to/elixirconf/2025/discount/ThinkingElixir?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – ElixirConf tickets with ThinkingElixir discount code for 10% off Do you have some Elixir news to share? 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