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  1. Jane Street1h 20m

    Building Tools for Traders with Ian Henry

    Ian Henry, Ron Minsky, Mark Mandelbaum, Mark Mirchandani, David Eastman, Brian Dorsey

    Ian Henry, a Jane Street engineer who transitioned from general web development to options trading tools, leverages the firm's custom OCaml ecosystem to build high-density interfaces that eliminate mouse usage and manage complex volatility surfaces. His recent work includes creating Bauble, a live 3D graphics environment in the Janet language that demonstrates how side projects using image-based state serialization and novel macro systems can rapidly inform internal production tooling. Through this process, Henry illustrates how Jane Street bridges the gap between low-latency exchange architecture and expert user needs by prioritizing type safety, extreme information density, and a parallel software universe free from standard web protocols.

  2. Jane Street1h 1m

    What is an Operating System? with Anil Madhavapeddy

    Anil Madhavapeddy, Ron Minsky, Mark Mandelbaum, Mark Blyther

    Mirage OS is a pure OCaml unikernel framework that compiles applications into minimal, single-purpose binaries by linking only essential drivers and protocol stacks directly to the kernel. Since its origins as a Cambridge research project to verify high-level language performance, the system has achieved significant industrial adoption, powering Docker for Mac and Windows, Tezos blockchain nodes, and energy-efficient solar sensor networks. By utilizing a library operating system model and advanced features like the LDRF memory model, Mirage delivers enhanced security through a reduced attack surface while enabling scalable multi-core execution in upcoming language releases.