
Speaker: Ruth Linehan
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Software Engineer @Momento, Previously APIs/Webhooks @GitHub and @Puppet
Ruth Linehan is a senior engineer at Momento, building high performance caching and pub/sub services, primarily in Rust. Previously, she worked on webhook delivery and APIs at GitHub, and on the server product at Puppet (Labs). Across her career, she has worked on high scale, high availability services and cares deeply about operational excellence.
Ruth lives in Portland, Oregon. When not working, she spends her time running in the woods, backpacking, singing, and petting cats.
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Session
The High Performance Talk You Did Not Expect To Hear about Rust
Abstract: Rust makes things faster but it slows down engineers, right? This was our team’s assumption when we decided to rewrite our code from Kotlin into Rust. But, we were wrong in completely unexpected ways.