Foreign Function Interfaces (FFI) are a core mechanism for enabling integration of new languages into existing codebases or building on existing libraries. That said, the term “FFI” is often overloaded in ways that may be unclear or ambiguous, and the are... (more…)

Learn why a team at IBM turned to Rust and WebAssembly in tandem to speed their Node.js application performance. (more…)

Comparing performance of Rust vs Crystal talking to a Redis database... (more…)

I recently rewrote a standard Kubernetes-deployed web service to use Cloudflare Workers. This post will explain how this process went, and how and why you may want to do the same. (more…)

The aim of this tutorial is to take you to a place where you can read and write enough Rust to fully appreciate the excellent learning resources available online, in particular The Book. It's an opportunity to try before you buy, and get enough feeling fo... (more…)