Rust Meetup Linz - 21th Edition

Rust Meetup Linz, No. 21!

Hello dear Rustaceans! Spring is in full swing and so are we! Let's listen to two fantastic talks on Rust!

📅 Schedule

📣 Welcome and Introduction
Rust Linz Organizers
17:30 (5:30pm CET)

We will start the night with the usual welcome round and some community news.

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📣 Is Rust a great language for building Kubernetes ecosystem?
by Deepu K Sasidharan
17:40 (5:40pm CEST)

When it comes to building tools for the Kubernetes ecosystem, your first thought would be Golang, I'm here to explore if Rust is a better alternative, especially for in-cluster tooling that needs to have minimal overhead and for WebAssembly workloads. Rust is also great for building Kubernetes tooling like CLI apps and so on.

I'll be also sharing and showcasing KDash - a Kubernetes CLI dashboard that I built using Rust and we will look at the Kubernetes-Rust ecosystem that is rapidly evolving and why you should consider it

- Rust vs Golang for k8s use cases
- Advantages of Rust over Golang
- Ideal Kubernetes use cases for Rust (WASI, tools, proxies)
- Real-life use case and example (KDash)
- State of the Rust ecosystem for DevOps and K8s

ℹ️ About Deepu
Deepu K Sasidharan is a Software Engineer by passion and profession. He is a Java Champion working as a Senior Developer Advocate at Okta. He is the co-lead of JHipster and the creator of KDash and JDL Studio. He is a polyglot programmer working with Java, JavaScript, Go, Rust, and so on. He is also a cloud technology advocate and an open-source software aficionado. He has authored books on Full-stack development and frequently writes about Java, JavaScript, Go, Rust, DevOps, Kubernetes, Linux, and so on, on his blog.

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📣 Async Rust: Portability and Interoperability
by Nick R. Cameron
Approx. 18:40 (6:40pm CEST)

I'll talk about the portability and interoperability initiative of the async working group, an attempt to make async programming in Rust less tied to specific runtimes and improve interoperability in the async ecosystem.

I'll cover some of the problems with async programming today, what the initiative will try to achieve, and some detail about current work on async IO traits (Read, Write, etc).

No async programming experience required!

ℹ️ About Nick
Rust at Microsoft. Previously: Rust core team, distributed databases at PingCAP, Firefox graphics and layout, research in PL and type systems. He/him.

We want to say a big THANK YOU to Microsoft for supporting the Rust Linz meetup 👏!

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