Today's guest is AJ Stuyvenberg, a Staff Engineer at @DatadogHQ working on their Serverless observability project. He had a great article recently about how they rewrote their AWS Lambda extension in Rust. It's a really interesting look at a big, hard project, from thinking about when it's a good idea to do a rewrite to talking about their focus on performance and reliability above all else and what he thinks about the Rust ecosystem.
Beyond that, AJ is just a learning machine, so I got his thoughts on all kinds of software development topics, from underrated AWS services and our favorite databases to the AWS Free Tier and the annoyances of a new AWS account.
Finally, AJ dishes out some career advice for curious, ambitious developers.
*Timestamps*
01:11 Start
03:54 Rewriting in Rust
14:44 Beta Users
18:59 Convincing People
21:51 A Demo is worth a Thousand words
28:07 Written any Rust before?
32:19 Rust harder than Go?
45:14 On using AI Day to day
50:40 App Runner
54:53 Container images over zip files
58:37 Free Tier + New AWS account
01:02:16 AWS Network costs
01:10:53 Cloudflare
01:12:27 Database Ecosystem
01:16:58 Career Advice for ambitious developers
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