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

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Benno van der Berg, Principal Software Engineer at Fiberplane, sits down with Luca Palmieri.

They discuss Fiberplane’s 3-years long journey with Rust, building an interactive observability 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 Rust adoption. They then dive into the challenges of maintaining Fiberplane’s codebase and conclude with a few tips for developers looking for Rust jobs.

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[@00:00] - Introduction
- Video recording of the interview
[@00:33] - Start of the interview
[@01:17] - Benno’s journey as a Software Engineer
[@04:29] - Fiberplane’s products
[@07:05] - Building an observability product in Rust
[@09:25] - Uses for Rust at Fiberplane
[@13:30] - WASM and front end
[@22:04] - Fiberplane’s 3-year experience with Rust
[@32:43] - Benno’s advice for developers seeking Rust jobs
[@35:28] - Conclusion

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Audio Editing: Mainmatter

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Mainmatter

Hosts: Luca Palmieri

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

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