Rustacean Station

Rust Web Programming with Maxwell Flitton

Jan 27, 2023
Ask episode
AI Snips
Chapters
Transcript
Episode notes
ANECDOTE

Rust's Impact on Server Costs

  • Maxwell Flitton, initially a Python developer, built medical simulation software with Flask and Python.
  • After incorporating Rust servers, their server costs significantly decreased, sparking his interest in Rust's web capabilities.
INSIGHT

Rust for Web Development

  • Despite being commonly perceived as a systems language, Rust's features like memory safety and traits enable productive web development.
  • This allows for fast, scalable servers at a lower cost.
ANECDOTE

Overly Stable App

  • Allen Wyma discusses an app he wrote in Python which worked so flawlessly that it concerned the operations team.
  • Its stability was unusual in their experience, highlighting the impact of thorough testing.
Get the Snipd Podcast app to discover more snips from this episode
Get the app