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Lead data scientist at Target describes a production simulation platform that models real Target distribution centers and runs at warehouse scale, built with functional languages (primarily Haskell, past work in Racket and OCaml). Focus is on designing data structures by reasoning about memory representation to deliver both the right semantics and the performance needed to scale to large datasets and many components. Notes practical validation by visiting centers and says Scala is not used.
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