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Whoops! I Rewrote It in Rust

Why and how Brian Pelikan rewrote Pelikan, Twitter’s open source and modular framework for in-memory caching, in Rust.

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Brian Martin

Brian Martin, Software Engineer at Twitter

Brian is a software engineer at Twitter where he focuses on performance and optimization projects. He contributes to several Twitter open source projects including: Pelikan, Rezolus, and rpc-perf. Brian is passionate about high performance software, systems tuning, monitoring, benchmarking, and Rust. When not hacking on code, Brian volunteers in his local search and rescue unit and is training his dog to find people who get lost in the wilderness.