Episode 3: Alex Koutmos and Observability

In this episode of Beam Radio, Alex Koutmos takes the hot seat as
the panel learns about Alex's programming roots, his personal
Elixir journey, and what excites him about programming on the Beam.
Alex then goes on to discuss the importance of application
observability and how the Beam (and specifically the projects in
the Beam-Telemetry GitHub organization) allow you to easily achieve
application observability. He then goes on to dive into his PromEx
project which aims to bring effortless Prometheus and Grafana
monitoring to Elixir applications. Alex is currently a Senior
Engineer at Boulevard, the author of the Elixir Twitter Tip Series,
a frequent blogger at akoutmos.com and the author of the PromEx and
Doctor libraries (as well as a few others). Elixir in Action
(https://www.manning.com/books/elixir-in-action-second-edition)
Learn You Some Erlang (https://learnyousomeerlang.com) Learn you
some Erlang “Onion Theory Platform”
(https://learnyousomeerlang.com/building-applications-with-otp)
Programming Elixir 1.6
(https://pragprog.com/titles/elixir16/programming-elixir-1-6/)
Elixir in Action, 2nd edition
(https://www.manning.com/books/elixir-in-action-second-edition)
Telemetry (https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/telemetry.html) Keynote:
Telemetry and LiveDashboard - Sophie DeBenedetto | ElixirConf EU
Virtual 2020 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9LV0hvPmUQ) Chris
Keathley - Telemetry Conventions
(https://keathley.io/blog/telemetry-conventions.html) Alex’s talk
on PromEx (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikIdh_UTkLM) Bruce Tate:
Julia multiple dispatch talk
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc9HwsxE1OY) We want to connect
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