Rustacean Station
Kraken's migration to Rust microservices, with Rob Ede
Oct 19, 2023
Rob Ede, lead maintainer of actix-web, talks about Kraken's migration to Rust microservices. They discuss the benefits of using Rust, the future improvements for actix-web, and the challenges and progress in the Rust ecosystem. The conversation highlights the cost reduction, increased efficiency, and improved productivity achieved by adopting Rust at Kraken. Overall, the podcast sheds light on the potential of Rust in web development and its growing popularity.
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Quick takeaways
- ACTIX web in Rust offers improved performance, reduced hosting costs, and increased scalability due to its efficient resource usage.
- Rust's web development ecosystem needs improvements in core abstractions and libraries to make it as approachable as web development in Javascript while maintaining the safety and efficiency of Rust.
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Introduction to ACTIX
ACTIX is one of the most popular web frameworks in the Rust ecosystem. It was initially built on the ACTIX framework, which was an ACTIMODEL implementation. However, in version one, ACTIX web became almost completely unrelated to the original ACTIX project. The founding principles of ACTIX web are to create a fast and pragmatic web framework that is easy to use.
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