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Taming Go’s Memory Usage — and Avoiding a Rust Rewrite

Akita’s Mark Gritter goes against the current trends and describes why he and his team stuck with Golang and chose not to rewrite their application in Rust.

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Mark Gritter, Principal Engineer at Postman

Mark is on startup #4, having previously worked on streaming video at Kealia; VM-aware flash data storage at Tintri; observability on the HashiCorp Vault team; and now API observability at Akita Software (now Postman). His non-work interests include combinatorial games, generative systems, and gardening.