Rust in September: Exploring eBPF with Rust @ c4
(The meetup will likely be held in German but we’ll switch to English if needed.)
Dear Rustacean,
our next Meetup will be on Wednesday 2024-09-11, 19:15 CEST.
You’re new to Rust, tried it out with some private projects or are already working professionally with it for years? You’re in good company! Whether you want to speed up your python code, write a web service, need interop with your C++-codebase, cross-compile for a microcontroller, write an emulator, … we’ve got you covered!
We commonly open up with a brief summary of noteworthy changes in the Rust ecosystem. Be it updates to the language itself, public events, its impact on other projects and languages, …
Then Marc will tell us about Berkeley Packet Filters (eBPF) and writing them in Rust. These are typically used in networking, security, and observability.
As usual: the remaining time is about whatever you want to talk about!
Always wanted to know why Rust is harder to learn than other popular languages or why it lacks a certain feature? When is it appropriate to rewrite a project in Rust? Is the compiler really that slow and are the binaries really that big? Do all those safety guarantees have an impact on the performance? Fetch a drink and let’s find it out.
See you soon!
Yours, Florian and Kai
If you have a topic you’d like to talk about, please let us know in advance. This way we can make sure there’s a time slot for you and maybe announce it officially. Thank you.
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Exploring eBPF with Rust
eBPF is a technology that allows small programs to run inside the operating system kernel. Common applications are in networking, security, and observability. The talk will give a short, general introduction to eBPF and then dive into a few concrete examples written in Rust leveraging the tooling developed by the Aya project.
Location: Chaos Computer Club Cologne (c4) e.V.
Heliosstr. 6a
Köln
- Via subway lines 3, 4, or 13 to “Venloer Straße/Gürtel” (exit the station towards “Heliosstr./Bezirksverwaltung”)
- Via bus lines 141, 142, or 143 to “Venloer Straße/Gürtel”
- Via train to “Köln-Ehrenfeld” (exit the station towards “Venloer Straße”)
Cross Venloer Straße and go into Heliosstraße. After 2–3min you arrive at the last building before an apartment complex labeled “Stayery” (on the right side). The entrance is next to the parking spots.
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