Exploring Fiberplane's 3-Year Rust Journey, with Benno van den Berg

Rustacean Station

Benno van der Berg, Principal Software Engineer at Fiberplane, sits down with Luca Palmieri.

They discuss Fiberplane’s 3-years long journey with Rust, building an interactive observability notebook.
They touch on Benno’s experience switching from .NET to Rust and share insights on using Rust for a commercial product, including the reasons behind Fiberplane’s Rust adoption. They then dive into the challenges of maintaining Fiberplane’s codebase and conclude with a few tips for developers looking for Rust jobs.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

• [@00:00] - Introduction
  • Video recording of the interview
• [@00:33] - Start of the interview
• [@01:17] - Benno’s journey as a Software Engineer
• [@04:29] - Fiberplane’s products
• [@07:05] - Building an observability product in Rust
• [@09:25] - Uses for Rust at Fiberplane
• [@13:30] - WASM and front end
• [@22:04] - Fiberplane’s 3-year experience with Rust
• [@32:43] - Benno’s advice for developers seeking Rust jobs
• [@35:28] - Conclusion

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Mainmatter

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Mainmatter

Hosts: Luca Palmieri