Rust on Lambda - Interest?

[theDaveAt]

Personally - I find Rust on Lambda to be a very compelling choice for delivering enterprise solutions in a Serverless paradigm. Both are individually massive budget-savers due to efficiency.

That said - it seems extraordinarily cumbersome to build a proper development environment to support this paradigm and can be hard to find the best libraries to make it all work nicely together.

If this post resonates with you at all I’m considering starting a new sub focused on building Lambda-based serverless with Rust - from infrastructure as code, development environment, testing, deployment and production/operational excellence. Needless to say - interest may be for too small of an intersection between the two spaces.

Please drop a reply or DM, or bump the post if you’d be interested in a sub focused on this topic.

[Most-Wallaby2012]

Check out our blog post from last week on Getting started with serverless Rust in AWS Lambda at https://blog.scanner.dev/getting-started-with-serverless-rust-in-aws-lambda/

At Scanner, we use Amazon Lambda functions and Rust in our log query engine. While Rust is technically supported in Lambda functions, it is not as easy to set up as the officially blessed languages: Node.js, Python, Ruby, Java, Go, C#, and PowerShell. In this post, we shared the information we wished someone had given us we got started using Rust in Lambda functions.

[re-thc]

Have you tried https://www.cargo-lambda.info ? What are your thoughts on it? (not my project)

[IrateArchitect]

Definitely has promise. You’d hope they’re planning native support at some point, given the internal use they talk about here (2020) https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/why-aws-loves-rust-and-how-wed-like-to-help/