It can be hard to find Rust programs' performance bottlenecks online. By integrating pprof-rs in TiKV, we can use the Go tool pprof to visualize TiKV's profiling data. This helps analyze the program's performance online. (more…)

A lot of people at RustFest Paris mentioned Cows– which may be surprising if you’ve never seen std::borrow::Cow! (more…)

The usage of Rust started as an experiment at Sentry but became a non negligible part of our infrastructure. This is lessons learned, what works and doesn't ... (more…)

With a beta of csv 1.0 just released, the time is ripe for a tutorial on how to read and write CSV data in Rust. This tutorial is targeted toward beginning Rust programmers, and is therefore full of examples and spends some time on basic concepts. Experie... (more…)

In Part 11, we spent some time clarifying mechanisms we had previously glossed over: how variables and functions from other ELF objects were accessed at runtime. We saw that doing so “proper” required the cooperation of the compiler, the assembler, the li... (more…)