Rust's ability to work on many different platforms across the full stack is great, but how easy is it to use our favorite language from data collection to storage? Can a compiled Rust application work …

Hanneli Tavante offers a quick introduction to the Rust language. Drawing on code comparisons between Java/Python and C, Hanneli explores some of Rust's main features, such as its type system, compiler structure, and development environment.

How does a small engineering team decide which technologies to use? Or whether to be open source or not? To be self-hosted or in the cloud? Wes Chow discusses the choices Chartbeat has made, how theyve succeeded and failed, and the framework by which the company makes decisions and argues for transparency and empathy from free and proprietary technologists to ease the pain.