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Meet the Speakers: James Shockley

Zero to Production: Using Rust to Build a Hyper Performant Distributed SaaS Platform

Barry Jones

Jul 31, 2023

James Shockley

Founding Engineer at Neurelo

Social: [ @shockley_je, shockleyje.com, neurelo.com, LinkedIn, Github, Sessionize ]

Founding Software Engineer at Neurelo, a data access platform to help teams simplify, understand, and optimize how they work with data. I love solving problems, and often find myself mulling over the toughest ones while shredding powder, climbing pitches, biking berms, or backpacking the AT.

Intermediate // Zero to Production: Using Rust to Build a Hyper Performant Distributed SaaS Platform

Category: [ Development, Operations, Testing/QA, Ecosystem ]

Languages: [ Rust ]

Technology: [ Rust, Actix-Web, SQLx ]

At Neurelo, a team of developers set off to create a wildly performant, massively scalable, and distributed data access platform with an appropriately modern and sensible language – Rust.

I’ll dive into how & why we selected Rust as well as explore our use of Rust as a general-purpose language for our core product. Then, I'll show how Rust enables fearless and rapid development, by going from zero-to-production for a new service. We’ll cover the process from setting up development tooling, to instrumenting your service for observability.