On February 2, 2020, one of FP Complete's Lead Software Engineers—Mike McGirr—presented a webinar on using Rust for creating DevOps tooling.

Webinar Outline

FP Complete is hosting a functional programming

webinar on, “Learn Rapid Rust with DevOps Success

Strategies.” A beginner’s guide including sample Rust

demonstration on writing your DevOps tools with Rust

over Haskell. An introduction to Rust, with basic DevOps

use cases, and the library ecosystem, airing on

February 5th, 2020.

The webinar will be hosted by Mike McGirr, a DevOps

Software Engineer at FP Complete which will provide an

abundance of Rust information with respect to

functional programming and DevOps, featuring (safety,

speed and accuracy) that make it unique and contributes

to its popularity, and its possible preference as a

language of choice for operating systems over Haskell,

web browsers and device drivers among others. The

webinar offers an interesting opportunity to learn and

use Rust in developing real world projects aside from

Haskell or other functional programming languages

available today.

Topics covered

During the webinar we will cover the following topics:

• A quick intro and background into the Rust programming language

• Some scenarios and reasons why you would want to use Rust for writing your DevOps tooling (and some reasons why you wouldn’t)

• A small example of using the existing AWS libraries to create   a basic DevOps tool

• How to Integrate FP into your Organization

Mike Mcgirr, a Lead Software Engineer at FP

Complete,will help us understand reasoning that

supports using Rust over other functional programming

languages offered in the market today.

More about your host

The webinar will be hosted by Mike McGirr, a veteran

DevOps Software Engineer at FP Complete. With years of

experience in DevOps software development, Mike will

walk us through a first in a series of Rust webinars

discussing why we would, and how we could utilize Rust

as a functional programming language to build DevOps

over other functional programming languages available

in the market today. Mike will also share with us a

small example script written in Rust showing how Rust

may be used.