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Loris Cro | Rust vs Go, and What Makes Live-Coding So Compelling

Episode Summary

Loris is a bioinformatician who has worked on everything from big-data problems in academia  to consulting for fintech startups in Singapore. He now works at Redis Labs as a Developer Advocate, and writes for the company tech blog, speaks about Redis at conferences, and live codes on Twitch.

Episode Notes

Loris is a bioinformatician who has worked on everything from big-data problems in academia  to consulting for fintech startups in Singapore. He now works at Redis Labs as a Developer Advocate, and writes for the company tech blog, speaks about Redis at conferences, and live codes on Twitch.

Show Highlights:

• “Why Go and not Rust?” (1:14)
• “Live Coding a Redis Client in Python from Scratch” (7:25)
• “Salvatore (ANTIREZ) live coding on Twitch” (10:31)
• “Why do people watch live coding streams?” (12:59)
• “What makes for an interesting talk?”(15:39)
• “Redis as a toolkit for building distributed systems”(18:01)

Relevant Links:

• Redis’ Company Tech Blog
• Loris’ Twitch account