Jacob Stanley
Software EngineerAmbiata
Jacob works at Ambiata, implementing the compiler and surrounding ecosystem for Icicle, a query language for processing large amounts of time-series data. His passion is building correct high performance software and he thinks functional programming and property-based testing are outstanding tools for this purpose.
Talks I've Given
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Gens N’ Roses: Appetite for Reduction
Featuring Jacob Stanley
QuickCheck is a shockingly effective tool for validating the initial and ongoing correctness of production software. One of QuickCheck’s most compelling features is that when a test failure is found, the failing test case is simplified to a minimal counterexample, through a process called...
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Icicle: The Highs and Lows of Optimising DSLs
Featuring Jacob Stanley
So, you’ve written a DSL, it’s a work of art! It so perfectly models the problem at hand that even a trained house cat could generate business value. You just have one problem, your interpreter runs 100 times slower than a shell script launching JVMs in a loop.
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technique