The Rustacean Station Podcast

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

Posted Sat, 24 May 2025 07:21:00 +0000

Gábor Szabó talks with Ran Reichman, Co-Founder and CEO of Flarion, a company building high-performance data processing systems using Rust.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

  • [@0:00] - The Code-Maven live meeting series on Rust at Work.
  • [@1:03] - Welcome to Ran Reichman, Co-Founder and CEO of Flarion.
  • [@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?
  • [@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?
  • [@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?
  • [@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?
  • [@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
  • [@46:35] - What is your experience using AI tools writing Rust code?
  • [@49:45] - What would you tell other founders, CTOs, and technology manager considering Rust?
  • [@51:43] - What is next for Flarion?

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Gábor Szabó

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Gábor Szabó

Hosts: Gábor Szabó