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Database Testing in OCaml: From CRUD to Connection Pool Stress Testing

Building a comprehensive database testing suite for Chaufr: integration tests, transaction verification, migration rollback testing, connection pool stress tests, and performance benchmarks using Alcotest, Lwt, and Caqti

21 Sep 2025

Chukwuma Akunyili

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Building Database Layer in OCaml: From UUID v7 to Standardized Error Handling

A comprehensive sprint retrospective documenting the implementation of a near-production-ready database and service layer using OCaml, Caqti, UUID v7, and standardized error handling for the Chaufr MVP

31 Aug 2025

Chukwuma Akunyili

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Improving Tezos Storage

Running a Tezos node currently costs a lot of disk space, about 59 GB for the context database, the place where the node stores the states corresponding to every block in the blockchain, since the first one. Of course, this is going to decrease once garbage collection is integrated, i.e. removing ve...

15 Jan 2019

OCamlPro

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Database - radiation hazard

Now that I've shat on mutability in prior posts, let's talk about how it pervades my game code. I'm a fan of the component model for gam...

12 Sep 2013

Cranial Burnout

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