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Dynamic deployment is what let you move code to the data, a big deal in distributed systems. It's not that weird of an idea; people have been building special cases of it for a long time. For instance, a database has a query language. The query language is limited (compared to a general purpose language), but it has the advantage that it can be dynamically deployed to where the data lives, greatly reducing networking overhead when the computation described by that query is evaluated. Databases aren't the only place where this is useful though. It's everywhere: 1. For service calls, being able to dynamically deploy an instance of the service to the node where it's called eliminates a network hop and encoding/decoding time at the service call boundary. 2. For data pipelines, dynamic deployment means you can fuse two pipeline stages even if they were separately deployed by different teams and use different library dependencies. ... and so on.

Distributed incremental Spark-style batch jobs: https://lnkd.in/gTh9SD9P Looking for feedback on this, this was a quick prototype, but with a bit of elbow grease it could be used for big data computation with perfect incrementality, no need for manual serialization, no dependency conflicts, and jobs that deploy in seconds with a function call. cc Unison Computing

What's the best thing about Unison? Closing out Unison Forall 2024, Paul Chiusano gave a retrospective on the past couple of years, and gave a glimpse into what's coming next. https://lnkd.in/grutRZx8

The latest version of Unison (v0.5.27) has shipped. Here are the new features and improvements. ✨ 𝗠𝗮𝗷𝗼𝗿 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀: Text and Numeric Literal Search: You can now search your codebase for strings and numeric literals with the experimental `text.find` command 🛠️ 𝗨𝗫 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 & 𝗙𝗶𝘅𝗲𝘀: - Enhancements and bugfixes to pretty printing and name resolution logic - Better handling of empty doc blocks and improved formatting for parenthesized operator expressions. 🐎 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀: - Optimizations across the standard runtime and improvements to the JIT runtime for faster execution.

At Unison Forall 2024, Daan van Berkel explained the Busy Beaver Problem, exploring uncomputable functions on a Turing machine written in Unison. Video: https://lnkd.in/eb7qaQr7

At Unison Forall 2024, Kyle Goetz described his adventures in creating a TreeSitter parser for Unison. Video: https://lnkd.in/gfFD6jPH

At Unison Forall 2024, Eric Torreborre gave an introduction to the usage and implementation of his Potions library for parsing command line options in Unison. Video: https://lnkd.in/guucTfy6

At Unison Forall 2024, Simon Højberg took us through his vision of a rich and graphical Unison Codebase Manager, currently in development. Video: https://lnkd.in/gvExcMWa

Unison Forall 2024 video highlight: Dan Freeman discusses interactive graphical user interfaces in Unison. https://lnkd.in/gPqPHzyH

Video from Unison Forall 2024: Tavish Pegram shows how to build a beautiful full stack app easily with WebComponents, Unison Cloud, and HTMX. https://lnkd.in/gcm8qyjG