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An Option? Have a slice!

In 2024, I added the `Option::as_slice` and `Option::as_mut_slice` methods to libcore. This talk is about what motivated the addition, and looks into the no less than 4 different implementations that made up the methods. It also shows that even without a deep understanding of all compiler internals, it is possible to add changes both to the compiler and standard library.

There are rats in my Cargo!!!

In this introductory talk, we will explore what it means to "Ratatuify" the Rust package manager, Cargo.

From Pain to Solution: Private Rust Crates with CrabHub

As Rust projects grow, managing private crates becomes a real headache. Teams struggle with inconsistent versioning, fragile dependencies, and cumbersome workflows that slow down development. In this talk, I’ll walk through how these challenges can be solved with Rust and CrabHub.

Coffee Break

Supercharging Axum Development with Claude Code: Practical AI-Assisted Workflows for Rust Engineers

In this talk, we’ll explore battle-tested best practices for integrating Claude Code into a professional Axum development workflow without compromising on Rust’s core values: correctness, clarity, and maintainability.

Are mutexes slow?

In this talk, we'll dive deep into what makes concurrency coordination costly, and explore some pathways to mitigate that cost.

Procedural Macros 101

This session we will delve into the sometimes murky world of procedural macros - showing some of the great tooling available for understanding the code generated, such as cargo expand, and the key building blocks we will need for writing our own.

Lunch Break

Let's talk about Link-Time Optimization (LTO)

I contributed LTO-related changes to many open-source projects, and had a lot of interesting discussions with their maintainers about LTO. In this talk, I want to share with you my experience.

Blazingly Fast or Blazingly Hyped? A Reality Check on the RIIR Movement

This talk puts popular Rust rewrites to the test. We'll examine how these tools stack up against their battle-tested predecessors, looking at real-world performance, compilation times, binary sizes, feature completeness, and ecosystem maturity.

Coffee Break

From Micrograd to coppergrad: Building Neural Networks and Backpropagation from Scratch in Rust

In this talk, we’ll re-create the core ideas of Karpathy’s micrograd, but entirely in Rust.

Why I Needed Rust: Finally, Infrastructure Automation I can sleep on

For infrastructure engineers, SREs, platform teams, and Rust developers who've felt the pain of configuration drift, failed deployments, and infrastructure code that simply doesn't scale safely.