May Lightning Talks: State machines for sync, BonsaiDB, WASM Cloudflare Workers

For our May meetup, we have three lightning talks to share from our members: Paul Butler, Cole Lawrence, and Jesse Hallett.

The typical breakdown is 5-7 minutes per talk + 10 minutes audience Q&A.

We'll open doors at 7pm, and talks will be from 7:30pm-8:30pm.

Aper: composable state machines for data synchronization
Paul will introduce Aper, a Rust data structure library for synchronizing data across space and time using state machines.

Quick look at BonsaiDB: an embedded database for Rust
Cole will demonstrate how BonsaiDB was used to develop a toy package registry for Deno. BonsaiDB takes considerable inspiration from the architecture and design of CouchDB, leading to a highly performant and ergonomic experience.

WASM & Cloudflare Workers
Jesse will expand on how Cloudflare Workers run custom WASM code in the datacenter closest to each request for minimal response times. We'll look at what it takes to deploy a Rust program to a worker, and what that gets us.

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JFrog has generously agreed to sponsor this month's event by providing food and drink.

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The Flatiron School has generously agreed to host this month's event.

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