The Rustvolution: How Rust Is the Future of Cloud Native - Flynn, Buoyant

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The Rustvolution: How Rust Is the Future of Cloud Native - Flynn, Buoyant

For the last several years, Go and Kubernetes have been all but inseparable. This monoculture approach has brought some tremendous benefits to the cloud-native ecosystem, fueling the growth of companies moving to cloud native through Go's extensive set of widely-available common tools, and the wide base of talent it provided. Today, the maturing ecosystem also recognizes some of Go's limitations and looks to languages like Rust for memory safety, fearless concurrency, and zero-cost abstractions — capabilities that address critical challenges faced by developers in modern distributed systems. With the rise of excellent Rust-native approaches to Kubernetes development, Rust promises us a world without null pointers, memory leaks, and garbage collection. Join this session to learn why (and how) to look to Rust for the future of the cloud native ecosystem.