What Is an Operating System? with Anil Madhavapeddy
Anil Madhavapeddy is an academic, author, engineer, entrepreneur, and OCaml aficionado. In this episode, Anil and Ron consider the evolving role of operating systems, security on the internet, and the...
3 Nov 20211h 1min
Building a UI Framework with Ty Overby
Ty Overby is a programmer in Jane Street’s web platform group where he works on Bonsai, our OCaml library for building interactive browser-based UI. In this episode, Ty and Ron consider the functional...
6 Okt 20211h
Writing, Technically with James Somers
James Somers is Jane Street’s writer-in-residence, splitting his time between English and OCaml, and helping to push forward all sorts of efforts around knowledge-sharing at Jane Street. In this episo...
1 Sep 20211h
More Signals & Threads coming soon!
Signals & Threads is back, and we have a fun season of topics lined up, including: Building better abstractions for design and user interfaces, the role of writing in a technical organization, the app...
24 Aug 202137s
An inside look at Jane Street's tech internship with Jeanne Van Briesen, Matt Else, and Grace Zhang
In this week's episode, the season 1 finale, Ron speaks with Jeanne, Matt, and Grace, three former tech interns at Jane Street who have returned as full-timers. They talk about the experience of being...
6 Nov 20201h 2min
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 diffe...
28 Okt 20201h 3min
Language design with Leo White
Equal parts science and art, programming language design is very much an unsolved problem. This week, Ron speaks with Leo White, from Jane Street's Tools & Compilers team, about cutting-edge language ...
21 Okt 20201h 7min
Clock synchronization with Chris Perl
Clock synchronization, keeping all of the clocks on your network set to the “correct” time, sounds straightforward: our smartphones sure don’t seem to have trouble with it. Next, keep them all accurat...
14 Okt 202044min
