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Rust All the Way Down

Chapter 6 of 7 · Section 37 of 51

Sections

1. Intro

  • 1. Agenda
  • 2. Las Vegas, 2011 — where I learned to program

2. The Rails Lesson

  • 3. Convention over configuration
  • 4. The database was a shared design
  • 5. Controllers — where a request becomes a decision
  • 6. Parameter handling — the shape of what comes in
  • 7. Middleware — the layer I didn't know I needed
  • 8. "It works on my machine"
  • 9. How new all of this still was
  • 10. From Rails conventions to Navigator
  • 11. A eulogy for my programming career

3. Shared craft compounds

  • 12. Keep domain seams in Rust, where interest compounds
  • 13. Widely available — governed in the open
  • 14. A cautionary tale — Java, Oracle, and the price of a single owner
  • 15. Say it with your whole chest

4. Six ways to know a change holds

  • 16. One giant change deserves more than one glance
  • 17. The compiler asks whether the program can be true
  • 18. Clippy and rustfmt ask whether the code speaks our dialect
  • 19. Tests ask whether the promise still holds at the boundary
  • 20. Bloom turns verification into a learning loop
  • 21. Marketing copy must explain the way, not only the claim
  • 22. Three workshops, three people, one method
  • 23. Fast generation, slow enough verification

5. From Law to Workflow

  • 24. The goal — deterministic workflows from law
  • 25. Step 1 — read the law
  • 26. Step 2 — write the behavior before the code
  • 27. "It works on my machine" — so we stopped trusting my machine
  • 28. Step 3 — the template: a questionnaire and a workflow
  • 29. Step 4 — the attorney gate is a graph invariant
  • 30. Step 5 — signature is a modular step
  • 31. Step 6 — the filing, run durably
  • 32. "It works on my machine" — even when my machine dies
  • 33. Why a workflow beats a prompt
  • 34. Privacy-preserving operations are part of the product

6. Rust All the Way Down

  • 35. We did not start all Rust
  • 36. From Postgres to Rust — with a bridge
  • 37. The runtime story: keep the seam, change the engine
  • 38. One deployment bucket; many matter repositories
  • 39. Rust where we can own the path; partners at the edge
  • 40. Rust reaches the places lawyers work
  • 41. I want a commercial relationship with everything I depend on
  • 42. Always the latest, always Rust
  • 43. Swap the seam — it still works
  • 44. The crates we actually run on
  • 45. Ethics is part of the stack
  • 46. The simplest developer environment I can get away with
  • 47. The online developer environment
  • 48. "It works on my machine in the cloud — and on yours, and on my client's"
  • 49. Where we are today — live by August 19
  • 50. Betting on ourselves — Rust in peace

7. Wrap Up

  • 51. Take the method home
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The runtime story: keep the seam, change the engine

The same move repeats at the runtime boundary. Durable workflows landed on Restate, local identity on Rauthy, the private edge on Pingora, local S3 on Garage, and observability on OpenObserve — each behind an application-owned protocol, trait, or environment contract.

Presenter notes

None of those names is the architecture. The architecture is the seam. The Template declares; Restate runs. An OIDC provider establishes identity, while Navigator's database decides authorization. StorageService keeps object bytes behind one contract. OTLP is the telemetry export boundary. The current local loop uses a production-shaped KIND dependency tier because it gives the code a real Restate journal, identity provider, object store, database, and telemetry collector to meet. The next developer-experience step may replace the cluster with native Rust process groups, but it must preserve the same environment contract and real-path tests. We do not call a mock a migration.

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