Rust at Work - conversation with Eli Shalom and Igal Tabachnik of Eureka Labs

In this episode, host Gábor Szabó talks to Eli Shalom, Eureka Labs’ Co-Founder and CTO, and Senior Software Engineer Igal Tabachnik about how Rust is powering infrastructure at Eureka Labs - a blockchain company operating in a low-latency, high-throughput environment.

Eureka Labs’ work focuses on advancing the logic of block construction to support more efficient execution and expand the functionality that can be packed into each block’s limited timeframe.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

• [@0:00] - The Code-Maven live meeting series on Rust at Work.
• [@1:14] - Eli Shalom Co-Founder and CTO of Eureka Labs.
• [@2:20] - Igal Tabachnik Senior Software Engineer.
  • Scala
• [@4:00] - About Eureka Labs and the “block builder”.
  • Blockchain
  • Ethereum Networks
• [@7:10] - What is blockchain? What is block building?
  • Smart contract
  • Smart contracts on Ethereum
  • NP-Hard problem
• [@15:00] - Why Rust?
  • reth
• [@25:45] - Ethereum implementation and deployment
  • Ethereum specs and standards
  • EIP - Ethereum Improvement Proposals
• [@35:06] - How did you get started with Rust?
  • Scala
  • Haskell
  • functional programming
  • virtual threads / green threads / tokio
  • Eq trait
  • F#
  • Constraints Liberate, Liberties Constrain talk by Runar Bjarnason.
• [@48:40] - How do you select the crates you use?
  • Elm
• [@55:03] - How much do you use AI? Which AI tools do you use?
  • Claude Code
  • Amp of Sourcegraph
  • GitHub Co-pilot
  • ChatGPT
  • LLMs
  • Perlexity
  • JetBrains
• [@1:04:05] - What should people do in order to be a better candidate for a job at your company?
  • Vibe coding
• [@1:08:30] - Things to take into account when selecting a language
• [@1:10:48] - Training and mentoring new developers
  • Redis
  • Learning Rust: The Rust Book.
  • Live coding streams by Jon Gjengset.
  • Rust for Rustaceans book by Jon Gjengset.
• [@1:16:00] - Final notes
  • Igal can be contacted on X/twitter @hmemcpy or via email at hmemcpy@gmail.com

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Gábor Szabó

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Gábor Szabó

Hosts: Gábor Szabó