There seems to be a widespread belief among Rust programmers that bypassing the borrow checker does not completely compromise type safety. This article attempts to show the converse, that lifetime checks are absolutely essential for type safety, even if ... (more…)

Credstash is a cli utility for managing credentials securely in AWS cloud. It uses a combination of AWS Key Management Service (KMS) and DynamoDB to achieve it. One of my co-worker has written a more detailed tutorial here. The original tool was written b... (more…)

At Bearer, we are a polyglot engineering team. Both in spoken languages and programming languages. Our stack is made up of services written in Node.js, Ruby, Elixir, and a handful of others in addition to all the languages our agent library supports. Like... (more…)

Learning Rust, one tetanus shot at a time. In this post: the work of bringing a Rust ray tracer to the web. WebAssembly, WebAssembly, WebAssembly. (more…)

Memory leakage in Rust is completely safe...until you run out and it results in your program being killed by the kernel. Learn how we solved this issue to eliminate memory leaks. (more…)