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PgDog is a Rust-based PostgreSQL proxy. They discovered Protobuf serialization was the real bottleneck in SQL query parsing — not the Postgres parser itself. By replacing Protobuf with direct C-to-Rust FFI bindings, they achieved 5-10x faster parsing.

Brave 1.85 rewrites its ad-blocking engine using Rust and FlatBuffers, reducing memory usage from 60MB to 15MB. Here’s how they did it.

Learn how to use Rust’s Into Trait with Option to let functions accept both raw values and Option types, eliminating tedious Some() wrapping.

Rust 1.93 is out with all musl targets upgraded to 1.2.5, #[cfg] conditional compilation in assembly, global allocators can now use TLS, and zero-copy APIs stabilized.

ZeroBrew is a Rust-based Homebrew alternative that installs packages lightning fast. Let’s talk about why it’s so fast and how to safely try it out.

When packet rates surpass 2 million per second, the Linux network stack simply gives up. It’s like your doorbell won’t stop ringing, but you never have time to open the door. Let’s talk about bypassing the kernel.

VectorWare team made Rust’s std library work on GPUs. You can now use println!, read files, and get system time inside GPU kernels. Here’s how they pulled it off.

A chat with a friend about the cold start performance differences between Rust and Go on AWS Lambda. Why does Rust seem to lose? When should you use which language? The stories hidden behind those monitoring charts.

A 21-year-old developer, Ajay Kumar, is rewriting FFmpeg from scratch in pure Rust. Why would anyone do this, and what does Rust change for multimedia work?

From 8,347 lines to 1,243 lines — the rebirth of a cryptography library