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Thinking Elixir 263 - BEAM Scales from Nano to BBC Big

Episode 263 of Thinking Elixir. 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!

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