Rebuilding Prime Video UI with Rust and WebAssembly

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. We’ll show how we’ve used Rust and WebAssembly to build new version of the Prime Video app and improve performance as well as enable features previously impossible to use with JavaScript and React. The talk will feature details of a new UI SDK in Rust for Prime Video that targets these living room devices.

Speaker

Alexandru Ene

Principal Engineer @Amazon

Alexandru is a Principal Engineer in Prime Video. Previously he’s worked in video games, game engines and has a passion for interactive media and high-performance systems.

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Date

Monday Nov 18 / 05:05PM PST ( 50 minutes )

Location

Seacliff ABC

Topics

Rust Wasm

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