Our first Jane Street Tech Talk went really well! Thanks to everyone who came and made it a fun event.

Now it’s time for another. We’re planning for the series to feature a combination of voices from inside and outside Jane Street. This one is of the latter variety: on March 6th, Arjun Guha will be presenting On Verification for System Configuration Languages, which is about using static verification techniques for catching bugs in Puppet configs.

I’ve known Arjun for years, and he’s a both a good hacker and a serious academic with a real knack for finding good ways of applying ideas from programming languages to systems problems. Also, he has excellent taste in programming languages…

I hope you’ll come! You can sign up here.