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Summer of Internships: Projects From the OCaml Compiler Team
We have had the pleasure of hosting several interns in the compiler team this past year. Their projects have tackled varied and challenging tasks touching on different aspects of compiler development, ranging from modularising the observability tool Olly to creating eBPF-based kernel-side performanc…
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Eio From a User's Perspective: An Interview With Simon Grondin
Are you curious about Eio but not sure what to expect? Eio is an effects-based direct-style concurrency library for OCaml 5. I recently spoke with Simon Grondin from Asemio about his personal experience using the I/O library Eio. He was kind enough to share the good and the bad and give me insight i…
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Our Experience at Tarides: Projects From Our Internships in 2023
Internships at Tarides We regularly have the pleasure of hosting internships where we work with engineers from all over the world on a diverse range of projects. By collaborating with people who are relatively new to the OCaml ecosystem, we get to benefit from their perspective. Seeing things with f…
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Engineer Spotlight: Sudha Parimala
For our third and final Engineer Spotlight, we interviewed Sudha Parimala, a Tarides engineer who works primarily on the Multicore Applications team. She talks about what lead her to become an OCaml programmer and why she's excited about OCaml 5, as our blog series on Multicore OCaml continues. Chr…
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Engineer Spotlight: Zach Shipko
Tarides engineer Zach Shipko answers a few questions about why he decided to learn OCaml and why he's particularly excited about the OCaml 5 release. In celebration of OCaml 5, we've interviewed several engineers about their personal experience with the language and what features they enjoy. It's a …
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Engineer Spotlight: Jules Aguillon
In celebration of the OCaml 5 release, we decided to interview a few of our talented engineers about OCaml. While it isn't a well-known language outside of the functional programming community, we're striving to get the word out about the great benefits of OCaml and why it's worth your time to try i…
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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…
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Irmin in the Browser
Introduction Over the past six months, I have been working on using Irmin in the browser, including irmin-server and the GraphQL interface. This has been fun and a great learning journey for me. Before this internship, irmin-server was primarily a Unix-based application. My project was to port irmin…
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