Gábor Szabó talks with Ran Reichman, Co-Founder and CEO of Flarion, a company building high-performance data processing systems using Rust.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

• [@0:00 ] - The Code-Maven live meeting series on Rust at Work.


• [@1:03 ] - Welcome to Ran Reichman, Co-Founder and CEO of Flarion.
  
  
  
  • Talpiot program
  
  
  • Wiz, About Wiz
  
  
  
  


• [@3:19 ] - When did you start using Rust?


• [@3:58 ] - Why did you think that Rust is good for this start-up company? And has it proven to be?
  
  
  
  • Polars
  
  
  • Apache Data Fusion
  
  
  
  


• [@5:43 ] - Inviting the audience in the live conversation to ask questions in the chat.


• [@6:22 ] - Have you considered other languages?


• [@7:02 ] - What kind of Rust developers do you work with?


• [@8:23 ] - Is any part of Flarion open source? Is it on GitHub?


• [@9:22 ] - How do you handle the hundreds of open source dependencies of Flarion?


• [@12:13 ] - Have you considered sponsoring open source developers? Bug bounties?


• [@13:23 ] - What do you mainly do with Rust?
  
  
  
  • Scala
  
  
  • Apache Spark
  
  
  • Python
  
  
  • Ray
  
  
  • JNI
  
  
  
  


• [@14:38 ] - Besides Rust, what other programming languages do you use?


• [@15:18 ] - Do you expect new joiners to know Rust, or can they learn on the job?


• [@17:44 ] - Are there parts of Rust that you avoid using?


• [@18:41 ] - How easy for you to recruit developers?


• [@20:56 ] - What are resources you recommend for people learning Rust?
  
  
  
  • The Rust book
  
  
  
  


• [@25:04 ] - Do you have any suggestions for someone who’d like to move from web dev to Rust/C/etc.?


• [@27:01 ] - What should I do to increase my chances of being hired?
  
  
  
  • Proof of work
  
  
  
  


• [@36:11 ] - How do you evaluate your decision to use Rust?


• [@37:19 ] - What are the good and bad parts of Rust and its ecosystem?


• [@42:05 ] - Home assignments where candidates fix issues in open source projects


• [@43:18 ] - Debuging distributed and high-performance use cases
  
  
  
  • Tracy Frame profiler
  
  
  
  


• [@46:35 ] - What is your experience using AI tools writing Rust code?
  
  
  
  • Claude
  
  
  • ChatGPT
  
  
  • Deep Seek R1
  
  
  
  


• [@49:45 ] - What would you tell other founders, CTOs, and technology manager considering Rust?


• [@51:43 ] - What is next for Flarion?
  
  
  
  • Flarion on Linkedin for available jobs.
  
  
  
  

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Gábor Szabó

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Gábor Szabó

Hosts: Gábor Szabó