Why Stategraph Chose OCaml for Infrastructure Management: Ensuring State Corruption is Impossible
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Summary
The article explains why the company Stategraph chose OCaml for building infrastructure management tools. The key argument is that when managing other people's infrastructure, state corruption must be impossible rather than just unlikely. OCaml's strong type system catches entire categories of bugs at compile time that traditional testing would miss, providing the reliability needed for critical infrastructure management.
Key quotes
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When you're managing other people's infrastructure, state corruption has to be impossible, not unlikely.
OCaml's type system catches entire categories of bugs at compile time that tests miss.
That's why we chose OCaml.
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