Crows, a Rust and WASM based load testing tool
Today I released Crows, a distributed load testing tool written in Rust running scenarios compiled to WebAssembly. If you are new to load testing - it's a type of performance testing that helps you determine how your system behaves under load. Sometimes also the term "stress test…
Can Rust prevent logic errors?
I'm a Rust fanboienthusiast and as a Rust enthusiast I often talk about things that make Rust appealing to me. Sometimes these conversations revolve around reliability and correctness and then I usually mention how I feel Rust helps me write software with fewer bugs, which usuall…
(async) Rust doesn't have to be hard
An article titled Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming came out today and it's getting a lot of attention. I have a feeling that it's viewed in a wrong context, so I'd like to comment on the issue raised there. A lot of the comments to the article are in a tone …
Arc and Mutex in Rust
When writing concurrent Rust you will encounter Arc and Mutex types sooner or later. And although Mutex might already sound familiar as it's a concept known in many languages, chances are you haven't heard about Arc before Rust. What's more, you can't fully understand these conce…