Rust Meetup Linz - 8th Edition

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Welcome to the 8TH EDITION of the RUST MEETUP LINZ. Join us for an evening of Rust with two great sessions. This time, our speakers come from Germany and the USA. We will hear one language-oriented session and one about Rust with Kubernetes.

After a short introduction by the meetup organizers, FLORIAN GILCHER will be our first speaker. Florian is a Rust programmer, trainer, business owner, and project maintainer. He's part of the Rust community and core team and a director of the Rust Foundation. He's heavily interested in open collaboration methods and ways to find positive and productive relationships between Open Source and the industry.

Next up will be TAYLOR THOMAS. Taylor Thomas is a Senior Software Engineer working in the DeisLabs team in Microsoft Azure. He has been involved with containers and Kubernetes platforms at Intel and Nike and is one of the core maintainers of Helm and Krustlet. He currently lives in the Utah area and enjoys hiking and camping. He has given talks at several KubeCons, Velocity Conf, and Helm Summit on a wide variety of container-related topics.

SCHEDULE 📅 for the meetup on March 18th:

17:45 (5:45pm)
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION (by RUST LINZ ORGANIZERS)

We will start the evening with a welcome round and some community news.

Next up (approx. 18:00 = 6:00pm):
OWNERSHIP AND BORROWING FROM A SYSTEMS CONSTRUCTION POINT OF VIEW (by FLORIAN GILCHER)

Rust's Ownership and Borrowing System has repercussions beyond the mere topic of memory safety. This talk approaches the topic from a different angle: interaction between components. I found this view a useful one to take when teaching Rust to programmers that enter Rust with a background of memory-safe programming languages such as Ruby, Java, or Python.

Next up (approx 19:00 = 7:00pm):
THE RUSTING CLOUD (by TAYLOR THOMAS)

One year ago, my team released Krustlet, a Kubernetes Kubelet implementation for running WASM modules written in Rust. Since then, we've spent plenty of time out on the frontier, implementing full Kubernetes functionality, all in Rust. In this session, we'll cover why we chose Rust and how WASM and Rust work together. Using examples from Krustlet, we'll also review the pros and cons of using Rust for writing software for the cloud and address how it compares to languages like Go.

Do you want to deliver a talk at the Rust meetup Linz? Great! Please enter your suggested topic in Sessionize at https://sessionize.com/rust-linz/.

Find the Zoom Link on the right. Or join us via YouTube: https://youtu.be/uTkIRUmr8d8