Dylan Brown, Senior Engineering Manager at Rising Academies, shares how and why his team adopted Rust for building WhatsApp-based educational tools serving 400,000+ students across Africa. The focus is on practical benefits for resource-constrained environments: lower compute costs, reliable deployments, easier refactoring, and code reviews centered on business logic. The stack uses axum and sqlx, and the episode covers the decision-making process from an engineering leadership perspective rather than a pure performance angle.
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