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Rustacean Station

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Nov 24, 2023 • 54min

Recruiting in Rust with Cedric Sellmann

Allen Wyma talks with Cedric Sellmann about his experience with recuiting Rust engineers. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: hello@rustacean-station.org Timestamps [@00:00] - Guest introduction: Cedric Sellmann - Rust Recruitment Specialist, previous Java recruiter. [@07:18] - Rust’s limited mainstream adoption and challenges in verifying Rust qualifications. [@17:28] - Job hunting tips for Rust developers. [@29:06] - Current Rust job market compared to previous years. [@32:54] - The effectiveness of referrals for Rust developer job opportunities. [@35:30] - Industries hiring Rust developers: crypto, gaming, and more! [@50:31] - Advice for aspiring Rust developers. Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma
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Nov 17, 2023 • 45min

Rust Digger with Gabor Szabo

Gabor Szabo, creator of Rust Digger website, discusses the importance of repository links, handling crates without owners, name squatting, and upcoming work on Rust Digger.
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Oct 19, 2023 • 32min

Kraken's migration to Rust microservices, with Rob Ede

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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Oct 5, 2023 • 1h 4min

Learn Rust in a Month of Lunches with Dave MacLeod

Dave MacLeod, Author of 'Learn Rust in a Month of Lunches,' discusses the motivation behind the book and the target audience. They delve into topics such as understanding shadowing in Rust, changes to printing in Rust, diving into async Rust, and tackling advanced topics like macros and closures. They also touch on the popularity of the chrono crate and the importance of safety and testing in Rust. Dave shares his experience writing the book and discusses future plans and projects.
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Sep 30, 2023 • 51min

What's New in Rust 1.70 and 1.71

The podcast highlights the 1.70 and 1.71 releases of Rust, discussing topics like Cargo's sparse protocol, OnceCell and OnceLock, Named debug levels, Enforced stability in the test CLI, Stabilized APIs, Changelog deep-dive, Use SipHash-1-3 instead of 2-4, Alignment debug checks for pointer derefs, Relaxed ordering for asm! operands, C-unwind ABI RFC, Debugger visualization attributes, raw-dylib linking, Upgrade to musl 1.2, Const-initialized thread locals, Uplift drop_ref clippy lints, Optimized cargo under rustup, and rust-version inclusion in publishing.
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Sep 28, 2023 • 56min

rb-sys with Ian Ker-Seymer

Ian Ker-Seymer, Staff Software Engineer discusses rb-sys, which integrates Ruby with Rust. Topics include the benefits of WebAssembly, Rust's practical use cases, rb-sys deep dive, challenges with Windows compilation, and the advantages of using Rust in Shopify's stack.
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Sep 19, 2023 • 51min

What's New in Rust 1.68 and 1.69

Highlights of the Rust 1.68 and 1.69 releases are discussed, including Cargo's sparse protocol, local Pin construction, and default alloc error handler. Stabilized APIs cover from<bool> for f64, UEFI extern, cargo build --verbose, and Make Context !Send and !Sync. Rust 1.68.1 and 1.68.2 are mentioned. Rust 1.69.0 brings Nice PR#42069, more cargo fix, and no more debug info for build scripts. Stabilized APIs include CStr::from_bytes_until_nul and unaligned references as a hard error. Suggest cargo add, search for macros with !, compatibility notes, and Rust 0.1 release notes are covered.
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Sep 11, 2023 • 41min

Pitching Rust to decision-makers, with Joel Marcey

Joel Marcey, Director of Technology at the Rust Foundation, discusses the value of Rust adoption, real-world success stories, Rust's competitive advantage for hiring, where Rust shines, and the future plans of the Rust Foundation.
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Aug 12, 2023 • 47min

Adopting Rust: present and future of the Rust web ecosystem, with Luca Palmieri

Marco Otte-Witte discusses with Luca Palmieri the present and future of the Rust web ecosystem. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: hello@rustacean-station.org Timestamps & referenced resources [@00:00] - Introduction Video recording of the interview [@00:27] - Start of the interview [@01:39] - “Zero to Production in Rust” Zero to Production in Rust [@02:40] - Luca’s experience working with Rust at AWS [@19:14] - Scenarios and use cases for Rust adoption [@34:43] - The state of the art and future of web backend development in Rust [@45:57] - Conclusion Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Mainmatter Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Mainmatter Hosts: Marco Otte-Witte
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Aug 11, 2023 • 1h 4min

Scanner.dev with Cliff Crosland

Allen Wyma talks with Cliff Crosland about his work on Scanner.dev that is powered by Rust. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: hello@rustacean-station.org Timestamps [@00:00] - Introduction [@02:16] - Rust for Cloud Infrastructure [@07:34] - Exploring libcurl [@13:23] - Introducing Rust to Scanner.dev [@13:23] - Scala in Data Science [@25:22] - Rust vs. Other Languages [@40:08] - Encoding/Decoding [@45:03] - How Scanner.dev Works [@55:16] - Future of Scanner.dev [@01:00:58] - Final Information Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

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