Rust at Work with Ran Reichman Co-Founder and CEO of Flarion

Gábor Szabó talks with Ran Reichman (linkedin.com/in/ran-reichman-740163b7), Co-Founder and CEO of Flarion (flarion.io), a company building high-performance data processing systems using Rust.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

• [@0:00] - The Code-Maven live (live.code-maven.com) meeting series on Rust at Work.

• [@1:03] - Welcome to Ran Reichman (linkedin.com/in/ran-reichman-740163b7), Co-Founder and CEO of Flarion (flarion.io).

• Talpiot program (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talpiot_program)

• Wiz (wiz.io), About Wiz (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiz,_Inc.)

• [@3:19] - When did you start using Rust?

• [@3:58] - Why did you think that Rust is good for this start-up company? And has it proven to be?

• Polars (pola.rs)

• Apache Data Fusion (datafusion.apache.org)

• [@5:43] - Inviting the audience in the live conversation to ask questions in the chat.

• [@6:22] - Have you considered other languages?

• [@7:02] - What kind of Rust developers do you work with?

• [@8:23] - Is any part of Flarion open source? Is it on GitHub?

• [@9:22] - How do you handle the hundreds of open source dependencies of Flarion?

• [@12:13] - Have you considered sponsoring open source developers? Bug bounties?

• [@13:23] - What do you mainly do with Rust?

• Scala (scala-lang.org)

• Apache Spark (spark.apache.org)

• Python (python.org)

• Ray (ray.io)

• JNI (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Native_Interface)

• [@14:38] - Besides Rust, what other programming languages do you use?

• [@15:18] - Do you expect new joiners to know Rust, or can they learn on the job?

• [@17:44] - Are there parts of Rust that you avoid using?

• [@18:41] - How easy for you to recruit developers?

• [@20:56] - What are resources you recommend for people learning Rust?

• The Rust book (doc.rust-lang.org/book)

• [@25:04] - Do you have any suggestions for someone who’d like to move from web dev to Rust/C/etc.?

• [@27:01] - What should I do to increase my chances of being hired?

• Proof of work (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_work)

• [@36:11] - How do you evaluate your decision to use Rust?

• [@37:19] - What are the good and bad parts of Rust and its ecosystem?

• [@42:05] - Home assignments where candidates fix issues in open source projects

• [@43:18] - Debuging distributed and high-performance use cases

• Tracy (github.com/wolfpld/tracy) Frame profiler

• [@46:35] - What is your experience using AI tools writing Rust code?

• Claude (claude.ai)

• ChatGPT (chatgpt.com)

• Deep Seek (deepseek.com) github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1

• [@49:45] - What would you tell other founders, CTOs, and technology manager considering Rust?

• [@51:43] - What is next for Flarion?

• Flarion on Linkedin (linkedin.com/company/flarion) for available jobs.

Credits

Intro Theme: twitter.com/AerocityMusic

Audio Editing: Gábor Szabó

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

Show Notes: Gábor Szabó

Hosts: Gábor Szabó (linkedin.com/in/szabgab)