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Rewriting in Rust + Being a Learning Machine with AJ Stuyvenberg

Rewriting in Rust + Being a Learning Machine with AJ Stuyvenberg

Software Huddle

May 6, 20251h 21m

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Show Notes

Today's guest is AJ Stuyvenberg, a Staff Engineer at Datadog 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.