Rob Ede, lead maintainer of actix-web, explains to Marco Otto-Witte how (and why) Kraken chose to migrate their microservices to Rust.

They also discuss Rust’s web development ecosystem at large, with a particular focus on actix-web: Rob shares his view on how improvements in the language and framework space will eventually lead to a future where web development in Rust can be as approachable as web development in Javascript.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

• [@00:00] - Introduction
  • Video recording of the interview
• [@00:36] - Start of the interview
• [@01:26] - What is actix-web?
• [@06:34] - Kraken’s migration from Java to Rust
• [@10:09] - Benefits of Rust adoption at Kraken
• [@12:48] - Rust vs Java
• [@15:42] - Future improvements for actix-web
• [@21:15] - Do Rust users become contributors?
• [@24:08] - The future of Rust and actix-web
• [@30:46] - Recommendations for adopting Rust
• [@31:37] - Conclusion

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Mainmatter

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Mainmatter

Hosts: Marco Otto-Witte