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Rust, Lambda, and DynamoDB
As part of my journey to learn more about Rust development, I developed a Lambda service hosted on AWS that writes to a DynamoDB database and an associated Rust HTTP client. Along with Rust, I used Terraform to manage the deployment of the AWS resources. This article is the 4th...
Programming
Why Rust is so Great – Reason 1, The Borrow Checker
When I first tripped across Rust, it was through an article touting Rust’s election as the “most loved programming language” for several years in Stack overflow’s yearly survey (https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted). The high-level language description was interesting – compiled, no virtual machine, efficient, fast, and safe. I’ll admit a bias towards compiled...
Programming
Easy multi-threaded shared memory in rust
This article is the 3rd in a series related to building a wireless thermostat in Rust, running on a Raspberry Pi – although this one has very little to do with the Raspberry Pi and is more relevant to any multi-threaded application. When creating my application, I implemented a simple...