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Given the extremely fast startup time and low memory usage of Rust binaries, using Rust in a serverless environment like AWS Lambdas is appealing. Rust launches extremely quickly from a cold start and uses little memory compared to other languages.

Our team wanted to use Lambda functions to scan through terabytes of data in S3 extremely quickly, and we needed to choose the fastest language for the job.

In this talk, Cliff will show how we compared Rust’s performance in AWS Lambda functions against other languages, specifically Go, Java, and Python. He’ll also cover some surprising ways you can tune Lambda performance, like how increasing lambda memory allocation will actually increase network bandwidth to S3, and more.

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DeveloperWeek 2023 Speakers

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Uri Levine
Co-Founder @ Waze

Jody Bailey_DeveloperWeek2023

Jody Bailey
Chief Technology Officer @ Stack Overflow

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Chip Childers
Chief Technology Officer @ Cisco

Steve-Wood_DeveloperWeek2023

Steve Wood
SVP of Product and Developer Platform @ Slack

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Stefano Corazza
Head of ROBLOX Studio @ ROBLOX

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Charity Majors
CTO & Co-Founder @ Honeycomb.io

Mischella Felix-Jayachandran_DeveloperWeek2023

Mischella Felix-Jayachandran
Chief Enterprise Architect @ Boston Consulting Group

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Tim Slagle
Head of Developer Relations @ Zoom

Devraj-varadhan_DeveloperWeek2023

Devraj Varadhan
SVP Engineering @ Ripple

Randy Kern
Chief Technology Officer @ Marqeta

Todd Sharp_DeveloperWeek2023

Todd Sharp
Principal Developer Advocate @ Twitch

Shailvi Wakhlu_DeveloperWeek2023

Shailvi Wakhlu
Sr. Director of Data @ Strava

All Speakers

Check out our Serverless Rust Series covering topics like:

  • Getting started with serverless Rust in AWS Lambdas
  • Comparing Rust with other languages in Amazon Lambda functions
  • Performance data comparing Rust, Python, Go, and Java when used in Lambda functions.
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Cliff Crosland
CEO, Co-founder
Scanner Inc.
Cliff is the CEO and co-founder of Scanner.dev, a serverless log analytics tool built for high speed and cost efficiency. Prior to founding Scanner, he was a Principal Engineer at Cisco where he led the backend infrastructure team for the Webex People Graph (previously called Accompany before its acquisition by Cisco). He has a love-hate relationship with Rust, but it’s mostly love these days.