June 27, 2022

This Week in Rust - Issue 446

56 minutes

Highlights from This Week in Rust - Issue 446,

presented by Allen and Tim, with Nell

Shamrell-Harrington, co-hosting for the first time in 2022.

Contributing to Rustacean Station

Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor!

Twitter: @rustaceanfm

Discord: Rustacean Station

Github: @rustacean-station

Email: [email protected]

Timestamps & referenced resources

[@00:00:00] Welcome

[@00:00:10] - Introduction

[@00:00:52] - Agenda

[@00:01:27] - Interview with Nell Shamrell-Harrington about editing This Week

in Rust

[@00:06:21] Submitting an article to This week in Rust

TWIR Github Repository github.com/rust-lang/this-week-in-rust

TWIR Twitter account @thisweekinrust

[@00:07:42] Call for volunteers to co-host an episode

[@00:08:38] - Quote of the

week

I wrote a bespoke time-series database in Rust a few years ago, and it has

had exactly one issue since I stood it up in production, and that was due to

pessimistic filesystem access patterns, rather than the language. This thing

is handling hundreds of thousands of inserts per second, and it’s even

threaded.

Given that I’ve been programming professionally for over a decade in Python,

Perl, Ruby, C, C++, Javascript, Java, and Rust, I’ll pick Rust absolutely

any time that I want something running that I won’t get called at 3 AM to

fix. It probably took me 5 times as long to write it as if I did it in Go or

Python, but I guarantee it’s saved me 10 times as much time I would have

otherwise spent triaging, debugging, and running disaster recovery.

“Configuring uWSGI for Production

Deployment”

(2019) by at Peter Sperl and Ben Green from Bloomberg

uWSGI’s max-requests and max-worker-lifetime options are intended to reduce the chance of memory leaks affecting production workloads

[@00:14:47] - Crate of the week: osmpbf

A Rust library for reading the OpenStreetMap PBF file format (*.osm.pbf). It

strives to offer the best performance using parallelization and

lazy-decoding with a simple interface while also exposing iterators for

items of every level in a PBF file.

OpenStreetMap

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT OSM)

[@00:16:40] Official Notices

[@00:16:43] - Rust Compiler June 2022 Steering Cycle

[@00:21:24] Highlights

[@00:21:51] (async) Rust doesn’t have to be

hard

Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream

Programming

Stack Overflow Developer Survey: Most loved programming

language

[@00:28:28] clippy book

[@00:29:40] Rolling co-lead roles for T-compiler

[@00:36:33] Hyper vs Rocket - Low Level vs Batteries included

Rust is surprisingly

expressive

(2013) by Steve Klabnik

[@00:40:00] Macro Patterns - A match made in heaven by Conrad Ludgate

[@00:41:11] Web Scraping with

Rust by Gints Dreimanis

Hyper with Sean McArthur

[@00:44:09] Trivia About Rust Types: An (Authorized) Transcription of Jon Gjengset’s Twitter Thread by Jimmy Hartzell

[@00:46:01] Rust language’s explosive popularity comes with challenges by Ed Targett

“A proactive approach to more secure

code”

(2019) by Microsoft Security Response Center

Project Zero team at Google

[audio] Rust Foundation with Rebecca Rumbul

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Tim McNamara

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Tim McNamara

Hosts: Tim McNamara, Nell Shamrell-Harrington and Allen Wyma.

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June 27, 2022

This Week in Rust - Issue 446

56 minutes

Highlights from This Week in Rust - Issue 446,

presented by Allen and Tim, with Nell

Shamrell-Harrington, co-hosting for the first time in 2022.

Contributing to Rustacean Station

Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor!

Twitter: @rustaceanfm

Discord: Rustacean Station

Github: @rustacean-station

Email: [email protected]

Timestamps & referenced resources

[@00:00:00] Welcome

[@00:00:10] - Introduction

[@00:00:52] - Agenda

[@00:01:27] - Interview with Nell Shamrell-Harrington about editing This Week

in Rust

[@00:06:21] Submitting an article to This week in Rust

TWIR Github Repository github.com/rust-lang/this-week-in-rust

TWIR Twitter account @thisweekinrust

[@00:07:42] Call for volunteers to co-host an episode

[@00:08:38] - Quote of the

week

I wrote a bespoke time-series database in Rust a few years ago, and it has

had exactly one issue since I stood it up in production, and that was due to

pessimistic filesystem access patterns, rather than the language. This thing

is handling hundreds of thousands of inserts per second, and it’s even

threaded.

Given that I’ve been programming professionally for over a decade in Python,

Perl, Ruby, C, C++, Javascript, Java, and Rust, I’ll pick Rust absolutely

any time that I want something running that I won’t get called at 3 AM to

fix. It probably took me 5 times as long to write it as if I did it in Go or

Python, but I guarantee it’s saved me 10 times as much time I would have

otherwise spent triaging, debugging, and running disaster recovery.

“Configuring uWSGI for Production

Deployment”

(2019) by at Peter Sperl and Ben Green from Bloomberg

uWSGI’s max-requests and max-worker-lifetime options are intended to reduce the chance of memory leaks affecting production workloads

[@00:14:47] - Crate of the week: osmpbf

A Rust library for reading the OpenStreetMap PBF file format (*.osm.pbf). It

strives to offer the best performance using parallelization and

lazy-decoding with a simple interface while also exposing iterators for

items of every level in a PBF file.

OpenStreetMap

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT OSM)

[@00:16:40] Official Notices

[@00:16:43] - Rust Compiler June 2022 Steering Cycle

[@00:21:24] Highlights

[@00:21:51] (async) Rust doesn’t have to be

hard

Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream

Programming

Stack Overflow Developer Survey: Most loved programming

language

[@00:28:28] clippy book

[@00:29:40] Rolling co-lead roles for T-compiler

[@00:36:33] Hyper vs Rocket - Low Level vs Batteries included

Rust is surprisingly

expressive

(2013) by Steve Klabnik

[@00:40:00] Macro Patterns - A match made in heaven by Conrad Ludgate

[@00:41:11] Web Scraping with

Rust by Gints Dreimanis

Hyper with Sean McArthur

[@00:44:09] Trivia About Rust Types: An (Authorized) Transcription of Jon Gjengset’s Twitter Thread by Jimmy Hartzell

[@00:46:01] Rust language’s explosive popularity comes with challenges by Ed Targett

“A proactive approach to more secure

code”

(2019) by Microsoft Security Response Center

Project Zero team at Google

[audio] Rust Foundation with Rebecca Rumbul

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Tim McNamara

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Tim McNamara

Hosts: Tim McNamara, Nell Shamrell-Harrington and Allen Wyma.

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