Rust is a relatively new and promising language that offers improvements in software in terms of safety and speed. We’ll cover if adopting Rust into your organization makes sense and where you would want to add it to an existing software stack. Advantages of Rust Background Rust was originally created by Mozilla in order to […]
Based on actual events. Let’s say you’ve got a blog. The blog has a bunch of posts. Each post has a title and a set of tags. The metadata for these posts is all contained in TOML files in a single directory. (If you use Zola, you’re pretty close to that.) And now you need […]
A beginner’s guide to writing your DevOps tools in Rust. Introduction In this blog post we’ll cover some basic DevOps use cases for Rust and why you would want to use it. As part of this, we’ll also cover a few common libraries you will likely use in a Rust-based DevOps tool for AWS. If […]
This blog post is a direct follow up on my previous blog post on different levels of async in Rust. You may want to check that one out before diving in here. Alright, so now we know that we can make our programs asynchronous by using non-blocking I/O calls. But last time we only saw […]
First there was cooperative multiprocessing. Then there were processes. An operating system could run multiple processes, each performing a series of sequential, blocking actions. Then came threads. A single processes could spawn off multiple threads, each performing its own series of sequential, blocking actions. (And really, the story starts earlier, with hardware interrupts and the […]
At FP Complete, we have long spoken about the three pillars of a software development language: productivity, robustness, and performance. Often times, these three pillars are in conflict with each other, or at least appear to be. Getting to market quickly (productivity) often involves skimping on quality assurance (robustness), or writing inefficient code (performance). Or […]
On February 2, 2020, one of FP Complete’s Lead Software Engineers—Mike McGirr—presented a webinar on using Rust for creating DevOps tooling. Webinar Outline FP Complete is hosting a functional programming webinar on, “Learn Rapid Rust with DevOps Success Strategies.” A beginner’s guide including sample Rust demonstration on writing your DevOps tools with Rust over Haskell. […]
Before getting started: no, there is no such thing as an async exception in Rust. I’ll explain what I mean shortly. Notice the comma in the title :). GHC Haskell supports a feature called asynchronous (or async) exceptions. Normal, synchronous exceptions are generated by the currently running code from doing something like trying to read […]
I run a website for Haskellers. People are able to put their email addresses on this website for others to contact them. These email addresses were historically protected by Mailhide, which would use a Captcha to prevent bots from scraping that information. Unfortunately, Mailhide was shut down. And from there, Sorta Secret was born. Sorta […]
We are excited that we have been able to keep up with the pace of our monthly webinar series. More importantly, we have been able to offer a variety of topics and this month’s webinar certainly illustrates our commitment to webinar diversity. We are pleased that Aniket Deshpande (Software and DevOps Engineer at FP Complete) was able to discuss […]