High Performance Serverless with Rust

Rust and AWS Lambda seem like the perfect fit. Micro-sized virtual machines and a highly-performant systems language that has a proven track record of delivering a quality developer experience. So why hasn't more adoption occurred?

In this talk I will bring together these two ecosystems to show that you can have highly available and scalable compute with Lambda while maximizing performance and resource consumption with Rust and the AWS Lambda Runtime. Come learn how to take advantage of Rust with the AWS Serverless Application Model and explore a multiple binary and shared library Cargo Workspace.

By the end of this talk, you'll walk away with practical options for building your next Lambda Function in Rust that will turbocharge your feature delivery and user's experience.


Speaker

Benjamen Pyle

Co-Founder & CEO @Pyle Cloud Technologies, LLC, Uniquely Genuine and Resourceful Technology Creator

Benjamen Pyle is a technology executive and software developer with over 20 years of experience across startups and large enterprises. He is Co-Founder and CEO of Pyle Cloud Technologies, an AWS-focused cloud consultancy specializing in cloud strategy, architecture, training, and cost optimization. He’s also an AWS Community Builder recognized for his deep expertise in serverless computing, event-driven architecture, and cloud-native and containerized solutions. When Benjamen doesn’t have his head in the clouds, he’s either playing golf with his wife and two boys or outside with their 12 paws.

Read more
Find Benjamen Pyle at:

From the same track

Session

Rust Patterns I Have Known and Loved

Monday Nov 18 / 01:35PM PST

When adopting Rust, there are many unfamiliar patterns and often what feels like a steep learning curve for those who aren't familiar with the language. For lower-level code, there are some times where trying to do something simple feels outright impossible.

Speaker image - Brian Martin

Brian Martin

Co-founder and Software Engineer @IOP Systems, Focused on High-Performance Software and Systems, Previously @Twitter

Session

Myth Busters: Is Rust a Slam Dunk?

Monday Nov 18 / 03:55PM PST

We built a high-scale caching service with rigorous latency, cost, and availability requirements in Kotlin. Then, we rewrote our services in Rust. Was it worth it?

Speaker image - Ramya Krishnamoorthy

Ramya Krishnamoorthy

Principal Engineer Building High Performance Serverless Caching at Momento With 18+ Years of Software Experience, Previously Foundational Engineer for Streaming Media Services @AWS and Senior Engineer for Financial Trading Systems @Bloomberg

Session

Fearless Programming with Rust

Monday Nov 18 / 02:45PM PST

Rust is a language that boasts the best of many worlds: ergonomic, expressive, performant and safe. The promise of Rust is being able to write complex code, at any layer of the stack, and be confident that it behaves as intended.

Speaker image - Senyo Simpson

Senyo Simpson

Software Engineer @Fly.io

Session

Rust: A Productive Language for Writing Database Applications

Monday Nov 18 / 10:35AM PST

When you think about Rust, you might think of performance, safety, and reliability, but what about productivity? Historically associated with systems programming, Rust's promise of safety, speed, and concurrency has led to its widespread adoption at the infrastructure level.

Speaker image - Carl Lerche

Carl Lerche

Principal Engineer @AWS, Author of the Tokio Rust Library,

Session

Rebuilding Prime Video UI with Rust and WebAssembly

Monday Nov 18 / 05:05PM PST

Prime Video delivers content to millions of customers, all over the world, on a variety of devices such as: game consoles, set-top boxes, streaming sticks, and Smart TVs. These devices have a vast range of hardware capabilities and performance characteristics.

Speaker image - Alexandru Ene

Alexandru Ene

Principal Engineer @Amazon