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 pending arrival (at last!) of OCaml 5.0. They also discuss using Raspberry Pis to fight climate change; the programming inspiration found in British pubs and on Moroccan beaches; and the time Anil went to a party, got drunk, and woke up with a job working on the Mars Polar Lander.
Some links to topics that came up in the discussion:
The latest edition of Real World OCaml: dev.realworldo...
The MirageOS library operating system: mirage.io/
Docker for Mac and Windows , which is based on MirageOS: www.docker.com...
Cambridge University’s OCaml Labs: ocamllabs.io/
NASA’s Mars Polar Lander
The Xen Project (xenproject.org/), which made extensive use of OCaml (ocaml.org/meet...) in their control stack.
The Multicore branch of OCaml: github.com/oca... monthly updates: discuss.ocaml....
You can find the transcript for this episode and all past episodes at signalsandthreads.com.