From Military to Modern Tech: The Rust Journey

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