Exploring Fiberplane's 3-Year Rust Journey, with Benno van den Berg
Exploring Fiberplane's 3-Year Rust Journey, with Benno van den Berg  
Podcast: Rustacean Station
Published On: Mon Aug 12 2024
Description: Benno van der Berg, Principal Software Engineer at Fiberplane, sits down with Luca Palmieri. They discuss Fiberplane’s 3-years long journey with Rust, building an interactive observability notebook. They touch on Benno’s experience switching from .NET to Rust and share insights on using Rust for a commercial product, including the reasons behind Fiberplane’s Rust adoption. They then dive into the challenges of maintaining Fiberplane’s codebase and conclude with a few tips for developers looking for Rust jobs. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: hello@rustacean-station.org Timestamps & referenced resources [@00:00] - Introduction Video recording of the interview [@00:33] - Start of the interview [@01:17] - Benno’s journey as a Software Engineer [@04:29] - Fiberplane’s products [@07:05] - Building an observability product in Rust [@09:25] - Uses for Rust at Fiberplane [@13:30] - WASM and front end [@22:04] - Fiberplane’s 3-year experience with Rust [@32:43] - Benno’s advice for developers seeking Rust jobs [@35:28] - Conclusion Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Mainmatter Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Mainmatter Hosts: Luca Palmieri