12 yrs supporting Software Architecture teaching with BEAMs
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Twelve years of courses use Erlang/Elixir on the BEAM so students implement real architectures — worker/leader, pipeline, peer-to-peer — as hands‑on lab projects. Students spawn large numbers of lightweight processes to build end‑to‑end prototypes, exercise failover, load distribution and state partitioning, and observe concrete effects on scalability, robustness and availability. Labs remove memory‑management and low‑level race noise so architectural mistakes surface quickly and learning is grounded in working systems.
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