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World Congress 2023 • Sep 27, 2023

Get ready to Rustle

Marco Otte-Witte

Switching your high-throughput microservices to Rust will drastically slash your cloud infrastructure costs. Discover how to build resilient, lightning-fast web backends without the nightmare of manual memory management.

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#1 about 2 min

Exploring the rise of industry adoption trends for Rust

Major tech companies increasingly adopt Rust to safely replace legacy systems programming languages.

#2 about 1 min

Shifting focus to Rust for web backend development

Applying systems-level capabilities simplifies building secure and performant cloud web applications.

#3 about 5 min

Reviewing Rust language basics and explicit type systems

Understanding core language features like explicit null types and error handling enums builds a foundation for safety.

#4 about 3 min

Understanding compile-time memory management and strict variable ownership

The compile-time ownership model eliminates the need for garbage collection and reduces manual memory management risks.

#5 about 3 min

Navigating the essential components of the Rust web ecosystem

Maturing asynchronous runtimes and data store integrations provide all necessary building blocks for modern architectures.

#6 about 2 min

Building a basic backend web server implementation in Rust

Comparing code structures between runtime environments reveals how cleanly request routing works in compiled applications.

#7 about 3 min

Analyzing performance consistency and server request throughput metrics

Eliminating garbage collection pauses produces higher request throughput and reliably consistent performance metrics.

#8 about 2 min

Reducing cloud infrastructure costs and overall server energy consumption

Faster server responses reduce necessary infrastructure levels, ultimately lowering cloud hosting costs and energy consumption.

#9 about 6 min

Improving long-term code maintainability with explicit data type systems

Replacing implicit business rules with rich type systems prevents bugs and simplifies developer onboarding processes.

#10 about 6 min

Identifying ideal use cases and incremental technology adoption strategies

Selecting optimal microservice boundaries or native extension points enables teams to navigate the initial adoption curve.

#11 about 2 min

Looking toward the future abstraction levels of Rust frameworks

Ecosystem improvements will continue to lower the learning curve while maintaining strict performance guarantees.

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