Google Summer of Code
Our community has identified project ideas that we believe will significantly enhance the Typelevel ecosystem. Nothing is set in stone: we may be able to adjust a project’s length and difficulty to make it the right fit for you. So if you see something here that interests you or have an idea of your own, please get in touch!
Machine learning inference in Cats Effect
We want to make it possible to deploy machine learning inference as part of a larger web service without compromising the latency of other on-going requests. The goal of this project is to create a compiler to transform a pre-trained ML model into a sequence of Cats Effect IO steps that perform inference on some input.
Prerequisites
Scala, ideally some experience with ML
Expected Difficulty
Hard but doable. Will draw on knowledge of ML and compilers.
Expected Length
Long (~ 350 hours)
Mentors
AI
web
programming languages
Serverless integrations for Feral
Feral is a Typelevel library for building serverless functions that currently supports AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Run Functions. We want to support more cloud providers, such as Cloudflare Workers.
Prerequisites
Scala, interest in Functional Programming, ideally experience with serverless
Expected Difficulty
Medium.
Expected Length
Medium (~ 175 hours)
Mentors
cloud
programming languages
Native I/O backend for FS2 JVM
FS2 on the JVM currently implements its networking API using JDK NIO. Unfortunately this indirection incurs a non-trivial performance penalty. We want to replace the use of JDK NIO with direct calls to system I/O APIs such as epoll and kqueue.
Prerequisites
Scala, ability to read C
Expected Difficulty
Medium.
Expected Length
Long (~ 350 hours)
Mentors
operating systems
programming languages
Streaming implementation of an XQuery subset
XQuery allows for transforming XML data in a declarative way. Based on the generic streaming query engine added into the fs2-data library, write a frontend to implement a streamable subset of XQuery.
Prerequisites
Scala, ideally some experience with XQuery
Expected Difficulty
Hard.
Expected Length
Long (~ 350 hours)
Mentors
data
streaming
programming languages
