Building a functional email server with Dominick LoBraico

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 .

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Building a functional email server with Dominick LoBraico is an episode from Signals and Threads by Jane Street.

This episode is 01:03:36 long.

This episode was published on Oct 28, 2020.

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