Rust NYC: Rust/Python Interop & DB Design

Join us on Wednesday, September 24th at Materialize. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. to give attendees plenty of time to grab pizza and socialize, and the talks begin at 7:30 p.m.

Talk 1 — Nicolas Posner - MS Data Science at University of Chicago - Rust/Python Interop

Beyond systems programming and other 'foundational software' use cases where Rust excels, there is increasing interest in embedding Rust into codebases primarily written in other languages: not a full rewrite, but a surgical injection.

One of the main targets for this treatment is Python, one of the most widely used programming languages globally with a long history of interoperation with C and C++. This talk examines the specific use case of Rust in scientific Python codebases, evaluates it against other options on both technical and organizational grounds, and provides hands-on examples of the benefits from augmenting existing Python codebases with Rust.

Talk 2 — Richard Hart - Principal Software Engineer at Antithesis

Writing a Database that folds and bends time in Rust... from Design to Production in 9 months.

• Brief overview of Pangolin and what types of queries it supports (5 min)
• Overview of Pangolin's MVCC implementation (10 min)
• Pros of Rust for this problem-space (5 min)
• Cons of Rust for this problem-space (5 min)
• Synergies of Rust (formal-methods) and simulation testing (5 min)
• Enablement along the way for new developers moving to Rust.

Lawrence Harvey is Rust NYC's official recruitment partner, with Ross providing support as a co-organizer and financial support.

Huge thanks to Antithesis who will be covering the cost of food and drink for the evening!

The space is generously sponsored by our longstanding partner Materialize.