Rust Never Sleeps: Tonic with Lucio Franco

Tonic is a native gRPC implementation in Rust that allows users to easily build gRPC servers and clients without extensive async experience. Tonic is part of the Tokio stack, which is a library that provides an asynchronous runtime for Rust and more tools to write async applications. Today, Lucio Franco (@lucio_d_franco) of Turso joins the podcast to discuss his unique experience maintaining Tonic and contributing to the asynchronous Rust ecosystem. Contributor is looking for a community manager! If you want to know more, shoot us an email at [email protected]. Subscribe to Contributor on Substack for email notifications! In this episode we discuss: The challenges of async Rust and ways the community has addressed them Lucio’s plan on how to get a job in distributed databases How the Tokio team avoided power dynamics Problems around working on open-source in the corporate world Why Lucio encouraged a collaborator to go on without him  Links: Tonic Tokio Turso Tower People: Carl Lerche (@carllerche) Other episodes: The Big Fork: libSQL with Glauber Costa