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

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