The "Rust in Production" track at QCon San Francisco 2024 will showcase how AWS, Momento, Amazon, and Fly.io are leveraging Rust to build high-performance, scalable systems. From memory safety to blazing speed, you'll learn about Rust’s standout features—and the growing pains, like wrangling a team with mixed Rust skills. Whether you're eyeing Rust for your next big project or just curious about the hype, these talks will provide the insights (and battle scars) to help you decide if Rust is the right fit for your stack
From this track
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.
Carl Lerche
Principal Engineer @AWS, Author of the Tokio Rust Library
High Performance Serverless with Rust
Monday Nov 18 / 11:45AM PST
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?
Benjamen Pyle
Co-Founder & CEO @Pyle Cloud Technologies, LLC, Uniquely Genuine and Resourceful Technology Creator
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.
Brian Martin
Co-founder and Software Engineer @IOP Systems, Focused on High-Performance Software and Systems, Previously @Twitter
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.
Senyo Simpson
Software Engineer @Fly.io Working on Systems Software and Kubernetes, Previously Did Machine Learning @Aerobotics
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?
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
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.
Alexandru Ene
Principal Engineer @Amazon
