Rust efficiencies at AWS scale

Ship It! SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps

Tim McNamara is known as New Zealand’s Rust guy. He is the author of Rust in Action, and also a Senior Software Engineer at AWS, where he helps other builders with all things Rust.

The main reason why Gerhard is intrigued by Rust is the incredible resource frugality. Fewer CPUs means less energy used, which is good for the planet, and good for the monthly bill. This becomes most noticeable at Amazon’s scale, when S3, Lambda, CloudFront and other services start adding Rust components.

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Featuring:

• Tim McNamara – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Gerhard Lazu – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• 📝 Why Discord is Switching from Go to Rust
• 🎬 Rust is interesting, but does it really make sense for me? - AWS re:Invent 2022 - Tim McNamara
• 📝 Optimizing 700 CPUs Away With Rust - Alan Ning, SRE at Tenable.io
• 📊 Lambda Cold Starts analysis by maxday
• 📝 Sustainability with Rust - AWS Open Source Blog
• 📝 How automated reasoning helps Amazon S3 innovate at scale - S3 ShardStore Rust
• Rust on AWS
• Rust Nation 2023

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapter

1. Welcome (00:00:00)

2. Tim McNamara (00:01:16)

3. Tim's ribs (00:02:28)

4. Early morning meetings (00:04:36)

5. Working at AWS (00:06:38)

6. Rust can save the planet (00:10:44)

7. Rust is interesting, but does it really make sense for me? (00:17:26)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHMfRFkhv-w

8. Latency is a big deal (00:20:23)

9. The memory case for Rust (00:27:09)

10. Errors in Rust (00:31:14)

11. Sponsor: Changelog++ (00:37:11)

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12. Where can we find Rust? (00:38:11)

13. Python vs Rust (00:46:25)

14. Tim's book (00:47:31)

15. TimClicks (00:57:10)

16. Wrap up (01:01:39)

17. Outro (01:02:46)