All About Rust in Real Life: Linkerd 2.0

Oliver Gould (@olix0r), CTO at Buoyant and one of the creators of Linkerd, joins Lachie Evenson (@LachlanEvenson) to talk Rust: one of StackOverflow's most loved programming languages for the 4^th year running.

Specifically, how and why Linkerd rewrote 2.0 in Rust, what's changed over the years, and get Oliver's tips for navigating tooling, package management, release channels, and more.

00:24 Why Linkerd chose to write in Rust

02:36 Oliver describes how performance changed in Rust

03:42 Is Rust production-ready?

05:02 The developer experience in Rust

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Learn more about Rust:

• https://www.rust-lang.org/
• https://rust-lang.org/learn
• https://rust-lang.org/community
• Rust Language Server (RLS) 
• Cargo, Rust's package manager
• crates.io

Learn more about Buoyant + Linkerd:

Project websites:

• https://buoyant.io
• https://linkerd.io

GitHub repos:

• https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2
• https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2-proxy

Resources 

• Linkerd Getting Started Guide
• Linkerd docs
• Slack: #linkerd2 channel

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