Gábor Szabó talks with Ran Reichman, Co-Founder and CEO of Flarion, a company building high-performance data processing systems using Rust.
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[@0:00] - The Code-Maven live meeting series on Rust at Work.[@1:03] - Welcome to Ran Reichman, Co-Founder and CEO of Flarion.Talpiot programWiz, About Wiz[@3:19] - When did you start using Rust?[@3:58] - Why did you think that Rust is good for this start-up company? And has it proven to be?PolarsApache Data Fusion[@5:43] - Inviting the audience in the live conversation to ask questions in the chat.[@6:22] - Have you considered other languages?[@7:02] - What kind of Rust developers do you work with?[@8:23] - Is any part of Flarion open source? Is it on GitHub?[@9:22] - How do you handle the hundreds of open source dependencies of Flarion?[@12:13] - Have you considered sponsoring open source developers? Bug bounties?[@13:23] - What do you mainly do with Rust?ScalaApache SparkPythonRayJNI[@14:38] - Besides Rust, what other programming languages do you use?[@15:18] - Do you expect new joiners to know Rust, or can they learn on the job?[@17:44] - Are there parts of Rust that you avoid using?[@18:41] - How easy for you to recruit developers?[@20:56] - What are resources you recommend for people learning Rust?The Rust book[@25:04] - Do you have any suggestions for someone who’d like to move from web dev to Rust/C/etc.?[@27:01] - What should I do to increase my chances of being hired?Proof of work[@36:11] - How do you evaluate your decision to use Rust?[@37:19] - What are the good and bad parts of Rust and its ecosystem?[@42:05] - Home assignments where candidates fix issues in open source projects[@43:18] - Debuging distributed and high-performance use casesTracy Frame profiler[@46:35] - What is your experience using AI tools writing Rust code?ClaudeChatGPTDeep Seek R1[@49:45] - What would you tell other founders, CTOs, and technology manager considering Rust?[@51:43] - What is next for Flarion?Flarion on Linkedin for available jobs.Credits
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