This was fun to work on. More to come.

We're still growing our Python team!

I've heard some talk of layoffs at Google in this space, so, please retweet, and share with anyone you know who might be affected.

Jane Street loves Python, and we're looking to hire people with deep experience building dev tools for Python at scale. More here!

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Guess who's about to become Rhode Island's #1 Rustacean and #2 document engineer (behind Andy van Dam, ofc). Catch me as an assistant prof at Brown CS in 2025!

Clowning on Redis/Memcached by handling tens of millions of requests/s on a single machine has been a staple of academic systems papers for years. It's cool that DragonflyDB is shipping something closer to that despite the constraints of being a drop-in replacement.

The entire field of PL right now: what if it was dynamically scoped.... but statically typed..............?

Another fun post from Richard Eisenberg, this one focusing on the memory level behavior of stack vs heap allocation, and how OCaml's locals play in to that.

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This is a neat hack.

I wrote a blog post for SIGOPS giving the backstory of our OSDI paper on Flux (global capacity management for millions of servers). If you’re curious about how this kind of work happens in industry, read on!

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Register to attend the OCaml Retreat at Auroville.

Dates: Sun 10th March to Fri 15th March

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Tracing in OCaml 5

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Sabine 🐫🦀 / 'use ocaml'; here's the endgame