Meet the Founders: An Open Discussion About Rewriting Using Rust
Session date: Jun 20, 2023 08:00am (Pacific Time)
Rust is a systems programming language designed for high performance, type safety, and concurrency. According to Stack Overflow’s annual survey in 2022, Rust is the most loved language with 87% of developers saying they want to continue using it. The same survey also reported that nearly 20% of developers aren’t currently using Rust, but want to start developing using it.
Ockam’s suite of programming libraries, command line tools, and managed cloud services enable developers to orchestrate end-to-end encryption. InfluxDB is the purpose-built time series database developed to handle time series data for IoT, monitoring, and real-time analytics. Ockam was originally developed using C, and InfluxDB was originally written using Go; both solutions have been completely rewritten in Rust. Discover why two founders decided to rewrite their developer tools using Rust, and gain insight into the strategy beforehand and the entire process.
Join this live panel as Mrinal Wadhwa and Paul Dix dive into:
- Their approach to rewriting a project in Rust
- How to build and train engineering teams
- Tips and tricks learned along the way - pitfalls to look out for!
Join this webinar as there will be a live discussion with Q&A
Mrinal Wadhwa
CTO and Founder, Ockam
Mrinal Wadhwa is CTO and Founder at Ockam. He is passionate about Distributed Systems, Applied Cryptography and the Internet of Things. At Ockam, Mrinal and his team are building open source tools to help developers build secure-by-design applications that can Trust all Data-in-Motion.
Paul Dix
Founder and Chief Technology Officer, InfluxData
Paul is the creator of InfluxDB. He has helped build software for startups, large companies and organizations like Microsoft, Google, McAfee, Thomson Reuters, and Air Force Space Command. He is the series editor for Addison Wesley s Data & Analytics book and video series. In 2010 Paul wrote the book Service Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails for Addison Wesley s. In 2009 he started the NYC Machine Learning Meetup, which now has over 7,000 members. Paul holds a degree in computer science from Columbia University.