Re: [Caml-list] OCaml for cloud-native apps

[Yawar Amin <yawar.amin@gmail.com>]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1956 bytes --]

Hi Markus, check out https://mirage.io/

Anil Madhavapeddy's team has been working on the Mirage unikernel for
several years and they were recently acquired by Docker. The value
proposition is being able to compile a kernel and any other stack you need
right inside your server and spin up a new instance in a few milliseconds
as soon as a request comes in. Anil spoke about it in this classic episode
of the FLOSS Weekly podcast: https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/302

Cheers,

Yawar

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 4:17 PM, Markus Rudy <webmaster@burgerdev.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I started writing OCaml recently, coming from a background of Scala and
> Python. My interest was triggered by a HackerNews post announcing an
> MOOC [1] for a language I never heard of before. As you might
> comprehend, I was quickly pulled into this amazing world of global type
> inference, multi-paradigm programming and native compilation.
>
> Since my day job is heavily focused on cloud development, I also came
> round to write some Go code. You can tell that this language is designed
> for containers, but what struck me as odd were the many parallels that I
> saw to OCaml - static compilation to native code, object oriented
> programming, first-class functions. Made me wonder if OCaml would be a
> good fit for running in, say, Kubernetes.
>
> I wrote a simple TCP utility to accompany my mail server, which is
> running on k8s, and after having dealt with some quirks I found that the
> language and ecosystem fit the cloud-native paradigm quite nicely. It
> also motivated me to write some of my findings up [2] and see if I can
> come up with some cool use cases.
>
> Are you deploying OCaml in containers? Are you aware of some libraries
> and/or tooling to accelerate developing OCaml for the cloud?
>
> Cheers, Markus
>
> [1]: https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/parisdiderot/56002S02/session02/about
> [2]: https://github.com/burgerdev/cloudtools
>
>

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 2718 bytes --]