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A description of the Erlang Runtime System ERTS and the virtual Machine BEAM.

14 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 2 stories, 12 comments · first 2017-04-07 · latest 2025-06-04

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  1. Here is the link to the git repo - https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook
    comment by the_arun · 2025-06-04 · in Why I wrote the BEAM book
  2. Dive into the BEAM VM. https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook
    comment by weatherlight · 2023-12-29 · in Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?
  3. …, "The Soul of Erlang and Elixir • Sasa Juric • GOTO 2019" and reading https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook " an attempt to document the internals of the Erlang runtime system and the Erlang virtual machine known as the BEAM." Be
    comment by weatherlight · 2023-04-03 · in Erlang/OTP: Garbage Collector
  4. …it: https://async.rs/blog/stop-worrying-about-blocking-the-new-a... This is how it works in BEAM: https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook/blob/master/chapters/sc... The commonality is to limit execution time and yield (preempt) so something…
    comment by hosh · 2023-01-27 · in Erlang's not about lightweight processes and message passing
  5. …Directly from Joe Armstrong: https://joearms.github.io/published/2013-11-21-My-favorite-e... [1] https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook/blob/3971e8e2d09e367670...
    comment by peoplefromibiza · 2022-12-01 · in Lunatic is an Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly
  6. https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook
    comment by RobertKerans · 2020-10-21 · in A brief introduction to BEAM
  7. The beam book: https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook
    comment by searchableguy · 2020-08-16 · in The BEAM Has Spoiled Me
  8. PDFs of the beam book available here: https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook/releases
    comment by fouc · 2020-07-03 · in The BEAM Book (2017)
  9. You can download a PDF version from here: https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook/releases
    comment by stevedomin · 2018-05-06 · in The Erlang Runtime System
  10. Don't forget about https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook
    comment by gootik · 2018-04-15 · in What Erlang Taught Me About Distributed Systems
  11. …of internals. For more details about the internals of BEAM VM can check out this open source book: https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook (Online rendered version: https://happi.github.io/theBeamBook/ )
    comment by rdtsc · 2017-11-24 · in The Halfword Heap Emulator (2011) [pdf]
  12. https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook for the VM http://erlang-in-anger.com/ for introspecting it in production
    comment by mononcqc · 2017-07-11 · in How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users