First 2019 meetup

Lets start the year with a talk from Brian, a few lightning talks and plenty of Rustaceans.

Doors open at 6:30pm and talks start around 7pm. Food and drinks provided thanks to our amazing host Nace partners!

NOTE: RSVPs close 11am the day prior. Building security needs First and Last name for all attendees. Due to the number of people involved in the process, no exceptions will be made. Thank all.

========== Main Talk ==========
Rust in Practice by Brian Myers

Brian Myers is a finance guy who started learning programming as a hobby a few years ago. He’s going to speak about a small utility crate he’s been working on that uses the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository to turn numbers into properly formatted, internationalized strings.

Topics will include best practices for Rust API design (traits, builders, ...), unicode (strings vs. bytes), performance (avoiding allocations, algorithms, ...), unsafe code (raw pointers, ...), no_std, and specialization.

====== Lightning Talk ======
AWS Lambda Runtime by David Barsky

The talk covers on the upcoming, asynchronous internals of the AWS Lambda Runtime for Rust and dives into Tokio's programming model.

David Barsky is an engineer at Amazon. He is one of the co-authors of the AWS Lambda Runtime for Rust.

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Thanks to our host MongoDb and sponsor Nace Partners!
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http://nacepartners.com/