
Why I wrote the BEAM book
created: June 4, 2025, 10:36 a.m. | updated: June 5, 2025, 5:14 p.m.
I wrote The BEAM Book so the next engineer fixes that pause before the coffee cools.
The Git history reads like a diary of frustration: “Moving files to top level to cope with Atlas,” “Atlas seems to be overwriting book.asciidoc”.
System architecture: How ERTS, the BEAM VM, and their subsystems actually work together in a running node.
This January, during my yearly review, I decided to print the book in time for Code Beam Stockholm.
Get InvolvedYou can now get the paperback-The BEAM Book 1.0 is live on Amazon.
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