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Latest Blog Posts
At Scanner, we use serverless Lambda functions to perform fast full-text search over large volumes of logs in data lakes, and our queries need to be lightning fast. We use Rust for this use case, but we wanted to know how Rust compared with Go, Java, and Python in terms of performance. We pitted the…
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Latest Blog Posts
At Scanner, we use Amazon Lambda functions and Rust in our log query engine. While Rust is technically supported in Lambda functions, it is not as easy to set up as the officially blessed languages: Node.js, Python, Ruby, Java, Go, C#, and PowerShell. In this post, we’ll show you how to build a Lambda function…
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Join Scanner at DeveloperWeek 2023 in February. In this talk, our Co-founder, Cliff, will show how we compared Rust’s performance in AWS Lambda functions against other languages, specifically Go, Java, and Python. We’ll also cover some surprising ways you can tune Lambda performance, like how increasing lambda memory allocation will actually increase network bandwidth to…