The Block Post

Allen Wyma talks with Alice Ryhl, one of the maintainers of the open source project Tokio.

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Timestamps

• [@00:40] - Alice’s Bio
• [@01:08] - Managing pull requests on GitHub
• [@05:00] - Alice’s involvement in Tokio
• [@08:23] - Tokio’s topics page
• [@11:06] - Alice’s favorite part of contributing
• [@12:55] - Changes in Tokio since Alice joined
• [@16:52] - Measuring metrics
• [@19:38] - Cooperative & preemptive scheduling
• [@24:30] - Diesel
• [@25:45] - Definition of [blocking]((https://ryhl.io/blog/async-what-is-blocking/)
• [@27:37] - I/O threads
• [@31:21] - What are sleeping threads?
• [@33:41] - Tokio Console
• [@41:14] - Pros and cons of using actors
• [@47:05] - Alice’s academic background
• [@49:22] - Tokio’s upcoming roadmap
• [@57:33] - Replacing epoll with io_uring
• [@58:56] - Axum, Tower, and Loom
• [@01:01:45] - Web frameworks for Rust
• [@01:05:57] - How to contact Alice

Other Resources

• Rust in Android Platform
• Tokio’s Discord
• Tokio’s Topics Pages
• Cooperative Scheduling
• Tokio Metrics
• Actors in Tokio
• io_uring with Tokio

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Plangora

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Plangora

Hosts: Allen Wyma

Hosts: Allen Wyma