Exploring Fiberplane's 3-Year Rust Journey, with Benno van den Berg

Benno van der Berg (linkedin.com/in/bennovandenberg), Principal Software Engineer at Fiberplane (fiberplane.com),
sits down with Luca Palmieri.

They discuss Fiberplane’s 3-years long journey with Rust, building an interactive observability notebook.

They touch on Benno’s experience switching from .NET to Rust and share insights on using Rust for a commercial product,
including the reasons behind Fiberplane’s Rust adoption. They then dive into the challenges of maintaining Fiberplane’s
codebase and conclude with a few tips for developers looking for Rust jobs.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

• [@00:00] - Introduction

• Video recording of the interview (mainmatter.com/blog/2024/04/11/fiberplanes-thr…)

• [@00:33] - Start of the interview

• [@01:17] - Benno’s journey as a Software Engineer

• [@04:29] - Fiberplane’s products

• [@07:05] - Building an observability product in Rust

• [@09:25] - Uses for Rust at Fiberplane

• [@13:30] - WASM and front end

• [@22:04] - Fiberplane’s 3-year experience with Rust

• [@32:43] - Benno’s advice for developers seeking Rust jobs

• [@35:28] - Conclusion

Credits

Intro Theme: twitter.com/AerocityMusic

Audio Editing: Mainmatter (mainmatter.com/rust-consulting)

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset (twitter.com/jonhoo)

Show Notes: Mainmatter (mainmatter.com/rust-consulting)

Hosts: Luca Palmieri (lpalmieri.com)