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Join us for a hands-on introduction to Actix Web, one of Rust's most popular and performant web frameworks. Whether you're new to web development in Rust or exploring alternatives to other frameworks, this talk will get you up and running with Actix Web.

We'll begin with a brief overview of Actix Web's architecture and ecosystem, and discuss why it stands out among Rust web frameworks. Then, we'll dive into building a real application together, covering essential concepts like routing, handlers, extractors, and error handling.

By the end of this session, you'll have a solid foundation for building your own web services with Actix Web and understand the trade-offs that make it an excellent choice for many Rust projects.

What to expect:

• Introduction to Actix Web and the Rust web framework landscape
• Live coding walkthrough of an example application
• Practical tips for getting started with your own projects

Prerequisites: Basic familiarity with Rust. Bring a laptop if you'd like to code along!

Speaker:
Nathan Reller
Nathan is the founder of Ginger Cybersecurity. Ginger Cybersecurity is a tech startup focused on easily enabling all businesses to defend themselves from and respond to cyberattacks in the cloud. Nathan is responsible for the development of their endpoint detection system.

Prior to founding Ginger Cybersecurity, Nathan worked as a cybersecurity researcher at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL). Nathan pursued research in the areas of cloud security, trusted computing, measurement and attestation, and Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR). He has been recognized for his innovative thinking. He was a member of the team that won the 2012 Invention of the Year award and led a team that won a 2022 Propulsion Grant. He also has two patents related to cybersecurity.

In his free time, Nathan enjoys spending time outdoors with his family.

Schedule:
6:30 PM EST Networking
7:00 PM EST Presentation

Zoom link will be visible after RSVP.

Rust, in addition to providing memory safety, is also capable of providing other guarantees about a program, when libraries are well-designed. This presentation will show how a library called HappyLock uses the borrow checker and trait system to prevent deadlocks.

Speaker:
Mica White is a software developer at HubSpot from Buffalo, NY. They use Rust most often in their free time, making tools like HappyLock.

Schedule:
6:30 PM EST Networking
7:00 PM EST Presentation

Zoom link will be visible after RSVP.

First, we will show the backend code to implement a REST API on the serverless Wasm cloud platform Fermyon Spin. This will include the composition of Wasm components compiled from both Rust and a different programming language. Second, we will show the code for a single page application (SPA) using the React-like Rust-based frontend framework Dioxus. This will include static prerending with client-side hydration for search engine optimization (SEO) using the new static site generation (SSG) option.

Speaker:
David Wallace Croft, M.Sc., is the organizer of the Dallas Rust User Meetup (DRUM) organizer, which meets twice a month via Discord.
(https://www.DallasRust.org/)

His open-source Rust projects include:

• Animated interactive games and simulations that run in the browser using WebAssembly (Wasm)
• Single page applications (SPAs) with static pre-rendering and client-side hydration using Dioxus
• Serverless functions using Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda and Fermyon Spin.
  (https://www.croftsoft.com/people/david/research/rust-wasm/)

Schedule:
6:30 PM EST Networking
7:00 PM EST Presentation

Zoom link will be visible after RSVP.