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Observer in Production: The BEAM Introspection Nobody Talks About

:observer is the most underused debugging tool in the Elixir ecosystem. Attached to a running node, it shows you every process, every ETS table, every mailbox — live. Here's how to run it safely against prod.

Apr 09, 2026 ·6 min

deep-dive

Building an Intelligence Platform with Elixir: Why We Chose the BEAM

The technical rationale behind building Prismatic Platform on Elixir/OTP: fault tolerance for 128 OSINT adapters, concurrency for parallel intelligence gathering, and the BEAM's unique properties for real-time analysis.

Apr 02, 2026 ·12 min