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Tokio with Carl Lerche (Remastered)

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Show Notes

Remaster of: Season 1 · Episode 5 — Tokio with Carle Lerche

Episode 34 — Tokio with Carl Lerche.

In this remastered episode, Glen speaks with Carl Lerche, the creator and maintainer of the Tokio Runtime, about his journey into technology, the evolution of programming languages, and the impact of Rust on the software development landscape. They discuss the rise of async programming, the development of networking libraries, and the future of Rust in infrastructure. Carl shares insights on the creation of the Bytes crate, the implications of io_uring, and his role at Amazon. The conversation also touches on the upcoming Tokio conference and the introduction of Toasty, a new query engine for Rust.

Learn more:

https://tokio.rs/ https://www.tokioconf.com/ https://github.com/carllerche

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Chapters

00:00 Intro 01:26 Introduction to Carl and His Journey in Tech 16:30 How Carl got into Rust 21:18 How Mio/Tokio begun 47:15 The Evolution of IO-URing and Its Practicality 53:11 Amazon's Adoption of Rust and Tokyo 55:06 Transitioning Leadership in the Tokyo Project 57:15 Toasty 01:08:55 AI in Software Development: A Tool for Productivity 01:25:53 First Tokio Conference 01:34:28 Outro

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