It was one of those wow-moments when I learned that Fsharp is suitable for making a DSL, that actually appears readable. It looks better than one of those fluent interfaces with method chaining. I was really interested in making a DSL, just as a learning exercise, and perhaps to contribute a dime to the Fsharp community. I stayed close to home, I already was in a System Integration project for my paid job, where we used Apache Camel. I was quite content with its elegance and simplicity.Howe [...]

This blog started on wordpress.com back in February of 2012, then in November 2013 I moved it to a hosted WordPress.org site here at latkin.org. WordPress is quite nice, but it seemed like it was a bit heavyweight given my very basic needs. I’ve wanted to slim down the site and get more hands-on for a while, now. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been migrating the entire blog to the Hugo static site generator. I’m pleased to announce that the migration is complete! Why Hugo? No particular reason. I happe[...]

Implementing radix sort with Alea.CUDA using the Unbound module.

As part of FsShelter development I had to implement the multilang serilizers for Storm, originally building against then current Storm 0.10.0. I’ve started with Thrift, thinking that since its already a part of Storm runtime it would make the adoption easier compared to protobuf and given similar  characteristics the downgrade in performance would not be […]

Thanks to docker, trying something out w/o having to figure out all the dependencies and pollute your system has become really easy. This is how I started with Storm and this is the way we now help others to try FsShelter as well – fsshelter-samples container. The container includes an installation of Storm, Mono, F# and a pre-built […]