Tonic is a native gRPC implementation in Rust that allows users to easily build gRPC servers and clients without extensive async experience. Tonic is part of the Tokio stack, which is a library that provides an asynchronous runtime for Rust and more tools to write async applications. Today, Lucio Franco (@lucio_d_franco) of Turso joins the podcast to discuss his unique experience maintaining Tonic and contributing to the asynchronous Rust ecosystem.

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In this episode we discuss:

The challenges of async Rust and ways the community has addressed them
Lucio’s plan on how to get a job in distributed databases
How the Tokio team avoided power dynamics
Problems around working on open-source in the corporate world
Why Lucio encouraged a collaborator to go on without him

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