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Building a functional email server with Dominick LoBraico

Building a functional email server with Dominick LoBraico

Signals and Threads vor 5 Jahren

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Despite a steady trickle of newcomers, email still reigns supreme
as the chief communication mechanism for the Information Age. At
Jane Street, it’s just as critical as anywhere, but there’s one
difference: the system at the heart of our email infrastructure
is homegrown. This week, Ron talks to Dominick LoBraico, an
engineer working on Jane Street’s technology infrastructure,
about how and why we built Mailcore, an email server written and
configured in OCaml. They delve into questions around how best to
represent the configuration of a complex system, when you should
build your own and when you shouldn’t, and the benefits of
bringing a code-focused approach to solving systems problems.

You can find the transcript for this episode along with links to
things we discussed on our website.