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Wed, 31 Jan 2024

#devtools #multicore #ocaml

Are Your Programs Doing What You Think They're Doing? Introducing Monitoring Tools for Multicore OCaml

As programs grow in size and complexity, they become more challenging to optimise. When the cause of a particular performance issue can theoretically be attributed to multiple sources, developers need concrete data to drive their decision making and avoid time-consuming guesswork. As you can imagine…

Isabella Salenius

Isabella Salenius

Communications Officer

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Wed, 17 Jan 2024

#multicore #ocaml

What are Data Races? And do They Threaten Your Business?

Imagine you have a brand-new coffee machine. One morning, you traipse excitedly down the stairs only to discover that, alas, your appliance has turned into a potato. The next day, it turns back into a coffee machine. And so it continues: on some days, it dispenses you perfect, frothy coffee; on othe…

Isabella Salenius

Isabella Salenius

Communications Officer

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Fri, 29 Dec 2023

#mirageos #ocaml #space

Announcing the ORCHIDE Project: Powering Satellite Innovation

It has been a few months since we announced our new product for both older and newer models of satellites: SpaceOS. Since then, there have been exciting updates to the use of SpaceOS for innovative satellite applications. Tarides is thrilled to announce our partnership with several esteemed organisa…

Isabella Salenius

Isabella Salenius

Communications Officer

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Tue, 05 Dec 2023

#community #team

International Disability Day 2023: Why It Matters

When I was in my early 20s, I developed a chronic illness that (amongst other things) has affected my mobility. Becoming disabled is an eye-opening experience, as it makes you acutely aware of two things: First, there are many ways in which society genuinely tries to help people with disabilities, a…

Isabella Salenius

Isabella Salenius

Communications Officer

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Tue, 21 Nov 2023

#compiler #ocaml #tutorial

How to Install OCaml 5: A Video Tutorial

Have you had difficulty installing OCaml for your projects? We have created a video tutorial showing you how to use Opam to install OCaml on Linux and macOS. All you need to complete the tutorial is a computer running either Linux or macOS, and an internet connection. By the end of the tutorial you …

Isabella Salenius

Isabella Salenius

Communications Officer

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Thu, 09 Nov 2023

OCaml Hacking Day in Chennai!

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a programmer in possession of a free Saturday afternoon must be in want of a good old OCaml hacking session. To address this pressing need, we recently hosted another OCaml Hacking Day event – this time at our Tarides India office in Chennai. We had a t…

Isabella Salenius

Isabella Salenius

Communications Officer

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Wed, 01 Nov 2023

WebAssembly Support for OCaml: Introducing Wasm_of_Ocaml

OCaml is constantly evolving. Developers collaborate to bring support for new features, improve workflows, and resolve pain points. To this end, the OCaml-Wasm GitHub organisation was recently established. Its goal is to bring WebAssembly support to OCaml. WebAssembly, more commonly known as Wasm, i…

Isabella Salenius

Isabella Salenius

Communications Officer

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Wed, 18 Oct 2023

#multicore #ocaml

Off to the Races: Using ThreadSanitizer in OCaml

OCaml Multicore opened up a new world of performance for developers, something that Nomadic Labs has tested with great results. Rather than relying on one core to do everything, the program can take advantage of multiple cores simultaneously for a significant performance boost. With new programming …

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Wed, 27 Sep 2023

#multicore #ocaml #tutorial

Tutorial: How to Port Lwt Applications to Eio

Thomas Leonard and Jonathan Ludlam hosted a tutorial on porting Lwt applications to OCaml 5 and Eio at arguably the world's largest functional programming conference: ICFP. The tutorial is a great introduction to Eio, with a clear step-by-step approach that is accessible to developers of different e…

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Isabella Salenius

Communications Officer

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Fri, 08 Sep 2023

#events #functional-programming #ocaml

The State of the Art in Functional Programming: Tarides at ICFP 2023

ICFP 2023 The 28th ACM Sigplan International Conference on Functional Programming is taking place in Seattle as I’m typing. This is the largest international research conference on functional programming, and this year’s event features fascinating keynotes (including one from OCaml’s very own …

Isabella Salenius

Isabella Salenius

Communications Officer

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Thu, 27 Jul 2023

#events #mirageos

Reflections on the MirageOS Retreat in Morocco

Introduction Since we are a hybrid remote and distributed company, everyone at Tarides knows first-hand how important in-person retreats are for collaborating on software development. They give us a chance to focus more deeply on our work, collaborate closely, and learn from one another. We are part…

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Wed, 05 Jul 2023

#cybersecurity #memory-safety #mirageos #ocaml

Zero-Day Attacks: What Are They, and Can a Language Like OCaml Protect You?

Zero-day attacks have been getting increased media attention lately, but what are they? And how can we protect ourselves? Google’s Project Zero tracks zero-day vulnerabilities at major software vendors. In 2021, their tracker noted the detection and disclosure of 58 in-the-wild zero-day exploits, …

Isabella Salenius

Isabella Salenius

Communications Officer

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Wed, 22 Mar 2023

#compiler #events #ocaml

Compiler Hacking in Cambridge is Back!

What’s the best way to spend a Friday evening? We think most people would agree that hacking on OCaml is pretty much at the top of that list (although full disclosure, our sample size for this data could be larger). On Friday the 24th of February, Tarides’s UK office hosted an evening of compile…

Isabella Salenius

Isabella Salenius

Communications Officer

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Thu, 02 Mar 2023

#multicore #ocaml #open-source

The Journey to OCaml Multicore: Bringing Big Ideas to Life

Continuing our blog series on Multicore OCaml, this blog provides an overview of the road to OCaml Multicore. If you want to know how you can use OCaml 5 in your own projects, please contact us for more information. We also recommend watching KC Sivaramakrishnan's ICFP 22' talk Retrofitting Concurre…

Isabella Salenius

Isabella Salenius

Communications Officer

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Tue, 27 Dec 2022

#eio #functional-programming #memory-safety #ocaml

Love Rust? Then OCaml's New Eio Library is for You

We’ve come to expect a lot from the programming languages we use. We want the memory safety of Java, the performance of C/C++, and the concurrency of Go. On top of this, we need robust cybersecurity tools to protect us from the many risks and vulnerabilities in the world, all in an intuitive and e…

Isabella Salenius

Isabella Salenius

Communications Officer

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Tue, 20 Dec 2022

#blockchain #interview #multicore

How Nomadic Labs Used Multicore Processing to Create a Faster Blockchain

The technology that makes blockchain possible is complex, cutting-edge, and fascinating. Balancing efficiency and security on a knife's edge, it finds perfect harmony between high transaction speeds and safe, predictable results. Blockchain technology is constantly evolving, pushing the boundaries o…

Isabella Salenius

Isabella Salenius

Communications Officer

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Tue, 22 Nov 2022

#business #functional-programming #memory-safety #ocaml

Six Surprising Reasons the OCaml Programming Language is Good for Business

Functional programming languages have been around since the 1950's, when the first high-level languages were used to program early computers. Examples of functional programming languages include OCaml, Erlang, Clojure, Haskell, Scala, and Common Lisp. Choosing the right programming language is criti…

Isabella Salenius

Isabella Salenius

Communications Officer

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Fri, 14 Oct 2022

#functional-programming #ocaml #sponsor

Real World OCaml Book Giveaway!

Real World OCaml is a fantastic book on OCaml and functional programming – a great resource for beginners and experienced users alike. At Tarides, we want to support new learners of OCaml as much as we can, making it easier for people to become part of the vibrant community surrounding the languag…

Isabella Salenius

Isabella Salenius

Communications Officer

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Tue, 06 Sep 2022

#community #sponsor

Tarides Sponsors Girls Can Code

The tech industry has long struggled with a lack of diversity. This existing imbalance combined with social and educational problems such as early gender bias still tends to prevent lots of people, including women, from entering the field. Girls Can Code aims to help young women learn programming an…

Isabella Salenius

Isabella Salenius

Communications Officer

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Fri, 26 Aug 2022

Tarides Goes on Holiday!

Relaxing in today’s world can be difficult. Taking the time you need to cool off, refocus, and explore something new requires a solid amount of time in which you can disconnect from daily habits and find a new beat. At Tarides we address this by providing the framework needed for our employees to …

Isabella Salenius

Isabella Salenius

Communications Officer

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Tue, 19 Jul 2022

#cybersecurity #iot #mirageos

Tarides is on the Wavestone Radar!

Cybersecurity is a growing concern for individuals and companies alike. At Tarides, security is at the centre of every solution we provide, and this year we have been recognised for our efforts! We’ve been accepted to Cyber@StationF’s acceleration program and are now featured in the 2022 Cyberse…

Isabella Salenius

Isabella Salenius

Communications Officer

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Tue, 28 Jun 2022

#awards #cybersecurity #mirageos

Thales Cyber@Station F Selection

The online world is becoming an increasingly bigger part of our everyday lives, bringing the issue of cybersecurity to the forefront of more and more minds. At Tarides we put security at the centre of everything we do, and we’re honoured to be part of Cyber@Station F in 2022. Tarides is thrilled t…

Isabella Salenius

Isabella Salenius

Communications Officer

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Thu, 23 Jun 2022

Team Tarides Visits a 17th Century Chateau

Everyone at Tarides recently had the opportunity to meet up in person for the first time! Since the global pandemic left much of our distributed team unable to meet, we organised a working retreat that brought all our teams together to work, learn, and have fun. This was the first formal retreat we�…

Isabella Salenius

Isabella Salenius

Communications Officer

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Tue, 21 Jun 2022

#events #functional-programming #ocaml

Functional Conf 2022

This year, Tarides attended the 2022 Functional Conf in India. Tarides’s engineers Sudha Parimala and Shakthi Kannan gave presentations on the OCaml platform and Sandmark, a continuous benchmarking tool for Multicore OCaml. The Functional Conf is a three-day conference on everything functional pro…

Isabella Salenius

Isabella Salenius

Communications Officer

Shadow of camels and riders on sand.

Wed, 15 Jun 2022

#compiler #functional-programming #ocaml

OCaml 5 Alpha Release

OCaml 5 is live! This major release introduces domains and effects, delivering unprecedented speed and efficiency to OCaml. Testing shows that OCaml 5 is able to outperform Go and closely match Rust in terms of performance. Keep reading for more details! Tarides is thrilled that the alpha release of…

Isabella Salenius

Isabella Salenius

Communications Officer

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Thu, 02 Jun 2022

#events #functional-programming #sponsor

Tarides Sponsors 12th Annual Journées Franciliennes

Tarides is proud to sponsor the 12th annual programming contest Journées Franciliennes de Programmation! On the 31st of May 2022, students from three different Parisian universities met at La Sorbonne University to engage in some friendly but lively competition. Bachelor students from La Sorbonne (…

Isabella Salenius

Isabella Salenius

Communications Officer

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Tue, 19 Apr 2022

#community #events #partnership

Tarides Partners with 50inTech!

50inTech Tarides is proud to have been recognised by 50inTech and featured on their website! 50inTech’s mission is to achieve a 50% representation of women in tech by 2050. To this end, 50inTech runs several amazing initiatives that generate opportunities for women looking to have successful caree…

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Isabella Salenius

Isabella Salenius

Communications Officer

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Tue, 29 Mar 2022

MirageOS 4 Released!

Tarides is delighted to announce that MirageOS 4 is finally released! As core contributors to the project, we are proud to have been part of the journey to 4.0. What is MirageOS? MirageOS is a library operating system that constructs unikernels for fast and secure network applications that work acro…

Isabella Salenius

Isabella Salenius

Communications Officer