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High performance Ruby with Rust by Anthony Broad-Crawford

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High performance Ruby with Rust by Anthony Broad-Crawford

In this talk, I explore the value behind diversifying your technology stack and how to integrate the high performance systems programming language Rust into your existing Ruby or Ruby on Rails technology stack. Combining these two tools gives a development team the best of both worlds, fast application development and blazingly fast speed for high performance.

About Anthony Broad-Crawford

Anthony Broad-Crawford has been a developer since the year 2000 with a short side stint as a semi-professional poker player. Since his transition to software development Anthony has:

Built 8 patent-receiving technologiesFounded two global companiesBeen a CTO (3x), CPO (1x), and CEO (1x), and is currently the CTO at Fooda where he manages product, user experience, and engineering. Fooda is predominantly web and mobile technology company focused on bringing great & healthy food from the best restaurant’s to people while at the office.

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