Building a functional email server
An interview which is at its heart about turning traditional sysadmin problems into software engineering problems, and about why you might prefer to configure your email system by writing code in a general purpose programming language.
https://signalsandthreads.com/building-a-functional-email-server/
Posted Oct 31, 2020, 11:23 AM UTC
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A: It is hard to understand this email server config B: Lets create our own email server in OCaml A: Yes! B: And create a arcane config file language for it A: Awesome!
https://xkcd.com/927/
Well, the point is that there was no new config language. Mailcore is configured by writing OCaml code, which is already broadly understood in the organization.
Aah true, the part where he talks about the .INI syntax is the old system, I must have jumped around to much in the text.
Still... Manage 400 lines of config vs coding a new server.