The Boring URL Shortener: System Design Interviews on the BEAM
The classic system design interview opener: design a URL shortener. Each follow-up is supposed to be harder than the last. On the BEAM, they're boring.
George Guimarães.
Strong Opinions, Mixed and Matched on Software Engineering and Ops, Elixir, AI.
Full Stack AI with Elixir: San Francisco Global Elixir Meetup Talk
My talk at the San Francisco Global Elixir Meetup on building full-stack AI solutions in Elixir: multiple chains, in-memory RAG, MCP clients, and neural networks in your supervision tree.
Elixir Mentor Podcast: Forecasting, AI Agents, and the BEAM
I joined the Elixir Mentor podcast to talk about Soothsayer, why the BEAM is the best runtime for AI workflows, and agentic commerce.
Taking Control: Building Flexible AI Workflows with Elixir's LangChain Step Mode
Building an AI assistant that knows when to ask for permission versus acting autonomously is trickier than it sounds.
AI Agentic Frameworks are building their own Erlang/Elixir
Looking at what some frameworks are doing, I feel they are replicating in Python what we already have in the
Why DORA Metrics are not Enough for Managing Software Engineering Organizations
DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) Metrics have become essential in organizations with strong engineering practices because they provide crucial insights
