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This Week in Rust 620
Project/Tooling Updates
Explore Seaography 2.0, a powerful GraphQL framework for Rust developers, offering automatic resolver generation, extensive customization, and fine-grained access control for building complex applications with ease.
This document announces the release candidate for redis-rs 1.0.0, highlighting breaking changes, new features, and migration instructions for upgrading from older versions.
This article announces the stable release of blazesym v0.2, a library for address symbolization with features like off-device symbolization, multi-format support, kernel symbolization, symbol inspection, and a first-class C API.
A recap of the kernel developers' discussions with toolchain developers at the 2025 GNU Tools Cauldron, covering Rust support, BTF improvements, SFrame, and more.
This article discusses the challenges and proposed solutions for the lifetime-end-pointer-zapping problem in C and C++, which can lead to undefined behavior in multithreaded code, and how these changes might affect Rust.
This article discusses upcoming Rust language features, such as field projections and arbitrary self types, which aim to improve kernel development by enabling cleaner and more ergonomic code for user-defined smart pointers.
A patch release that fixes errors and improves Discord integration.
Aladin Lite is a lightweight sky atlas that runs in the browser, allowing users to visualize image surveys and superimpose tabular data, and is easily embeddable on any web page.
Observations/Thoughts
The Handle trait smallcultfollowing.com
This article discusses the "Handle" trait proposal for Rust, aimed at clarifying shared ownership and promoting more explicit code when working with shared resources.
Variadic generics www.wakunguma.com
Variadic generics could significantly reduce code duplication when dealing with functions or data structures that need to support a variable number of parameters.
A data structure representing elements within a paragraph in a document.
Agoda's engineering team explains their successful migration to Rust for their Feature Store, highlighting performance gains, cost savings, and the importance of testing.
This article introduces Walrus, a fast, lock-free, single-node Write Ahead Log (WAL) in Rust, achieving 1M ops/sec and 1 GB/s write bandwidth on a consumer laptop, designed with a focus on performance and safety through a combination of memory-mapped files, atomic operations, and an asynchronous job system for file management.
This article introduces two Rust libraries, `simple-left-right` and `rt-write-lock`, designed for realtime concurrency in applications like audio editing where low-latency communication between threads is crucial.
A financial technology company explains why they chose C++ over Rust for rewriting their market data feed handler, citing challenges with Rust's ownership model and the benefits of C++ in terms of control, flexibility, and team expertise.
A podcast exploring networking, Rust, and internet technologies through deep dives, crate spotlights, and expert interviews.
A podcast exploring networking, Rust, and internet technologies through in-depth discussions and expert interviews.
Rust Walkthroughs
A Rust function sends a password reset email with a token-based link to a user, including HTML styling and security notices.
This SQL script creates a table for managing email verification tokens with associated indexes for efficient querying.
Fun With HyperLogLog and SIMD vaktibabat.github.io
This article explores the accuracy of the HyperLogLog algorithm in estimating cardinality on different datasets.
This article delves into the intricacies of Async Rust and Tokio I/O Streams, focusing on backpressure, concurrency, and ergonomic patterns for efficient network programming.
This article explains how to use Rust's type system to prevent invalid database access at compile time, specifically focusing on read-only replicas.
Explore advanced dependency injection techniques using namespaces for robust unit testing.
Cancelling async Rust sunshowers.io
This blog post analyzes the complexities of cancellation in async Rust, covering its mechanics, potential issues, and practical solutions for mitigating cancellation bugs in production codebases.
Considerations for memory management when working with array-like structures, especially regarding cloning and performance with large arrays.
Explore interoperability between Rust and C++ using FFI and Cxx, with practical examples for building a robot joint library.
Miscellaneous
[videos] RustConf 2025 www.youtube.com
An Amazon Principal Engineer discusses using Rust to build Prime Video's infrastructure, highlighting the challenges and benefits of using Rust for a global streaming service.