Rust Nation Pre-Conference Reception with The Rust Foundation [SOLD OUT]

We are excited to announce that The Rust London User Group and the Rust Foundation will host a pre-Rust Nation Conference Reception. This reception is an opportunity to network before the conference and to meet representatives from the Rust Foundation in person.

While the reception is open to all London Rustaceans, we encourage you to register for Rust Nation to maximize your experience. If you haven’t yet registered for the conference, we highly encourage you to do so!

Click here to grab your Rust Nation UK tickets for February 16 & 17. Use the promo code RUST-LONDON to get 15% off the price of any Rust Nation conference ticket.

We look forward to great conversations and networking with the Rust community, as well as several short talks and presentations. This event will feature drinks and buffet-style appetizers.

Please ensure that you register for a ticket via Eventbrite to join us at the Rust Nation UK Welcome Reception. Entrance will be limited to Eventbrite ticket holders.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rust-foundation-x-rust-nation-uk-welcome-reception-tickets-514320976887

While we will not enforce mask-wearing or social-distancing or ask for proof of vaccination or a negative test, we expect all attendees to respect others' decisions and space. If you are feeling unwell or if you are exhibiting symptoms, please stay home.

Additional Notes:

• This event will be taking place on the second floor of The Globe pub. Unfortunately, The Globe has step-access only (no lift).
• There will be a maximum of 2 drinks per guest.

Evening Talk 1: Rust The Most Boring Language
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Who would have thought converting Python microservices into distroless Rust web apps would be boring? Effortless, quick deployment, no bugs in production, and no scaling issues. In this talk, the author of Rust and the web programming book covers the journey of migrating from Python microservices hosted on AWS with Kubernetes to Rust. Clinical Metrics is a virtual emergency department simulation. As Clinical Metrics are embedded in the medical school curriculum, this means that 100s of users log in simultaneously to manage multiple patients per user, where each patient has a personalized chatbot to facilitate medical history taking. This creates a problem of needing high-performance servers that can handle spikes in traffic without requiring scaling, tanking the environmental footprint and server cost.
You’d think that such high performance would reduce developer productivity. This talk covers the traits and web frameworks that enabled a team of two developers to keep the same productivity whilst reducing server costs by 64%. Our case study proves that Rust is not only ready for web development but also revolutionizes web development.

Evening Talk 2: Autometrics - Grok Your Rust Code’s Performance in
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by Evan Schwarz

Autometrics is a new crate that makes it easy to understand the error rate, latency, and production usage of any function in your code. It’s a macro that instruments functions such as HTTP handlers and database methods with useful metrics. The library also generates Prometheus queries to help you make sense of the data and inserts links to the live charts directly into each function’s doc comments. Soon, it will support generating alert definitions and Grafana dashboards for you. In this talk, the creator of the autometrics will show what it’s like to jump from your code to live charts, briefly explain the backstory, and give a peek into some of the dark macro magic that makes it work in Rust.