Exploring Fiberplane's 3-Year Rust Journey - with Benno van den Berg

Principal Software Engineer at Fiberplane, Benno van den Berg, and Luca Palmieri, Principal Engineering Consultant at Mainmatter, discuss Fiberplane’s 3-year #rustlang journey building an observability product and interactive notebook. 🦀
They touch on Benno’s experience switching from .NET to Rust and share insights on using Rust for a commercial product, including the reasons behind Fiberplane’s choice.
Luca and Benno also talk about the challenges of maintaining Fiberplane’s codebase and conclude with a few tips for developers looking for Rust jobs.
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🦀 TIMESTAMPS 🦀
00:00 - Intro
00:58 - Start of the interview
01:42 - Benno’s journey as a Software Engineer
04:54 - Fiberplane’s products
07:30 - Building an observability product in Rust
09:50 - Uses for Rust at Fiberplane
13:55 - WASM and front end
22:29 - Fiberplane’s 3-year experience with Rust
33:08 - Benno’s advice for developers seeking Rust jobs
35:53 - Conclusion

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Thanks for the interview to both of you!