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Squeezing Every Millisecond: How We Rebuilt the Datadog Lambda Extension in Rust

Datadog had a cold start problem. Hear how we crushed the Lambda cold start latency, and how you can as well! This talk will cover detailed benchmarks in how we measured and achieved a 80% Lambda cold start improvement along with a 50% memory footprint reduction, directly saving customers thousands of dollars on cloud bandwidth and compute spend.

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AJ Stuyvenberg, Staff Engineer at Datadog

AJ Stuyvenberg is an AWS Serverless Hero and a Staff Engineer at Datadog. His work focuses on Serverless and Distributed Systems observability. AJ is an open source author and maintains several projects which focus on solving the Serverless developer experience. He’s spoken at multiple conferences including AWS re:Invent and AWS Summits, and frequently writes about Serverless topics on his blog. Previously, he was Principal Engineer at Serverless Inc – the company behind the Serverless Framework. In his spare time, AJ is an avid BASE jumper, and enjoys flying his wingsuit in the Alps.