Running 2 Million Lines of Haskell in Production at Fintech Company Mercury
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Summary
A blog post from the Haskell Programming Language blog introducing a new series called "Haskellers from the trenches" featuring Ian Duncan discussing production engineering at Mercury, a fintech company running approximately 2 million lines of Haskell in production serving 300,000 businesses. The article covers best practices, engineering rigour, and real-world production experiences with Haskell in a high-stakes financial technology environment.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledThe editors of the Haskell Blog are happy to announce a new series of articles called 'Haskellers from the trenches'
Engineering rigour and artistic creativity are a fantastic combination, and this series aims to be the synthesis of these two aspects within the Haskell world.
A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury
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