Oct. 11th, Friday - 14:15 - 14:45

Fast and efficient network protocols in Rust

Elfo is an actor system which can send messages between nodes. For this to work, we implemented a custom networking protocol entirely in Rust with support for compression and TCP-style flow control. We will dive deep into all the technical details and challenges we faced along the road. Strap in!

Speaker

Nikita Lapkov

Nikita is low-level Rust engineer specialising in databases and distributed systems. Previously, they worked on MongoDB, ClickHouse and YDB, as well as in high-frequency trading sector.

Nikita Lapkov