
Speaker: Lily Mara
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Staff Engineer @Discord, Author of "Refactoring to Rust", Previously Engineering Manager @OneSignal
Lily Mara is a Staff Engineer at Discord on the Notifications Platform team. She builds distributed systems to deliver tens of billions of notifications every day to Discord's users.
Previously she was an Engineering Manager and Software Engineer at OneSignal in San Mateo, CA.
Lily is the author of Refactoring to Rust, a book about improving the performance of existing software systems through the gradual addition of Rust code.
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Session
Accelerating Performance by Incrementally Integrating Rust Into Existing Codebase
In order to improve the performance of existing applications and services, we can identify the most performance-critical pieces and reimplement them in Rust as opposed to completely rewriting the applications from scratch.