Navigating gRPC and Rust's Type System Challenges

Florent Bécart, CTO at Nikulipe, sits down with Luca Palmieri.

Florent discusses Nikulipe’s reasons for adopting Rust: lower operational costs, scalability, safety, security and maintainability. Nikulipe has also made a bet on Rust for its frontend development needs, using Yew and WebAssembly.
The interview closes with an overview of the challenges they faced, including long compile times and workspace management.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

• [@00:00] - Introduction
  • Video recording of the interview
• [@00:33] - Start of the interview
• [@01:22] - Florent’s presentation
• [@02:56] - Nikulipe’s decision to adopt Rust
• [@05:10] - Managing spiky workloads with Rust
• [@06:41] - Using Rust for frontend development
• [@13:05] - Nikulipe’s challenges working with Rust
• [@22:31] - The future of Rust at Nikulipe
• [@23:37] - Florent’s advice on Rust for decision-makers
• [@26:30] - Conclusion

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Mainmatter

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Mainmatter

Hosts: Luca Palmieri