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Expanding Horizons: A Case for Rust Higher Up the Stack

Historically associated with systems programming due to its roots in Mozilla, Rust’s promise of safety, speed, and concurrency has led to its widespread adoption at the infrastructure level. This rise to prominence raises an intriguing question: Does Rust have a place higher up the stack, an area traditionally dominated by dynamic languages? Conventional wisdom suggests that these upper-tier domains prioritize productivity over raw performance. However, this talk will challenge this notion and explore Rust’s potential benefits to application backend development.

23 minutes

Carl Lerche, Principal Engineer at AWS

Carl Lerche is a Principal Engineer at AWS. He is best known for his open source Rust libraries, primarily Tokio, the asynchronous I/O runtime for Rust.

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P99 CONF OCT. 22 + 23, 2025

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