Most code running on the web is event-based, garbage-collected, and dynamically typed. In stark contrast, Rust is a compiled language with static type- and memory-safety without a garbage-collector. What are the implications for a project that compiles Ru... (more…)

In a project I’ve been playing around with recently, we’ve encountered the dilemma where you want to make it easy for users to write their own application logic using the system but at the same time want to keep that logic decoupled from the implementatio... (more…)

Your application is serving hundreds of customers per day. One day, some customers call you and complain that they are not able to proceed because of broken functionality. You then look into the… (more…)

In 2013, I discovered the Rust programming language and quickly decided to learn it and make it my main programming language. (more…)

Our team, DeisLabs, recently released a new piece of software called Krustlet, which is a tool for running WebAssembly modules on the popular, open-source container management tool called Kubernetes. Kubernetes is used quite extensively to run cloud softw... (more…)