World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 9, 2026 • Session details

Rust in the Real World: Adoption, Migration, and Tradeoffs

Vitaly Bragilevsky

Why are engineering teams skipping full system rewrites to incrementally adopt Rust? Discover how training existing developers and leveraging AI drastically slashes cloud compute bills.

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