All About Rust in Real Life: Linkerd 2.0
Description
Oliver Gould (@olix0r), CTO at Buoyant and one of the creators of Linkerd, joins Lachie Evenson (@LachlanEvenson) to talk Rust: one of StackOverflow's most loved programming languages for the 4th year running.
Specifically, how and why Linkerd rewrote 2.0 in Rust, what's changed over the years, and get Oliver's tips for navigating tooling, package management, release channels, and more.
00:24 Why Linkerd chose to write in Rust
02:36 Oliver describes how performance changed in Rust
03:42 Is Rust production-ready?
05:02 The developer experience in Rust
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Learn more about Rust:
- https://www.rust-lang.org/
- https://rust-lang.org/learn
- https://rust-lang.org/community
- Rust Language Server (RLS)
- Cargo, Rust's package manager
- crates.io
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Resources
- Linkerd Getting Started Guide
- Linkerd docs
- Slack: #linkerd2 channel
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