According to my Linkedin profile, I have been writing code for a company for almost 6 years. During this time, I have worked on PHP and Wordpress projects, built e-commerce websites using NextJS and JavaScript, written small backends in Python with Django/Flask/Fastapi, and developed fintech systems in GO, among other things. I have come to realize that I value a good type system and prefer writing code in a more functional way rather than using object-oriented programming....
A while ago, I wrote “Bye Opam, Hello Nix” where the topic of that post was that I replaced Opam with Nix as it works much better. This post is about taking this a bit further, discussing how I use Nix for local development, testing, and building Docker images. The core concept of Nix is “reproducible builds,” which means that “it works on my machine” is actually true. The idea of Nix is that you should be able to make an exact copy of something and send it to someone else’s computer, and they should get the same environment....
I’ve been writing OCaml since November 2023 and I enjoy the language; it’s fun to write and has some features I really appreciate. However, you may have noticed I only mentioned the “language” in the first sentence. That’s because I have issues with Opam, the package manager for OCaml. It has been a pain in my development workflow and I want to eliminate it. Not long ago, I was browsing Twitch and saw some content on Nix hosted by BlackGlasses (altf4stream), Metameeee and dmmulroy....
I’ve spent the last four months working on DBCaml. Some of you may be familiar with this project, while others may not. When I started DBCaml, I had one primary goal: to build a toolkit for OCaml that handles pooling and mapping to types and more. This toolkit would also run on Riot, which is an actor-model multi-core scheduler for OCaml 5. An issue I’ve found in the OCaml space and databases is that most of the existing database libraries either don’t support Postgres version 14 and higher, or they run on the PostgreSQL library, which is a C-binding library....
It’s time for me to discuss what I’ve been working on recently: Dbcaml. Dbcaml is a database toolkit built for OCaml, based on Riot. Riot is an actor-model multi-core scheduler for OCaml 5. Riot works by creating lightweight processes that execute code and communicate with the rest of the system using message-passing. You can find Riot on GitHub. The core idea of DBCaml is to provide a toolkit that assists with the “boring” tasks you don’t want to deal with, allowing you to focus on your queries....