Track IV · Where it lives
Where Rust
matters.
Where Rust matters most, and why. Rust took over four domains in the last few years: data and query engines, AI inference, agent infrastructure, and a deep bench of web and systems. This track maps the terrain so you know which crates and patterns to recognize when an agent proposes them.
- 01Query engines
How Rust took over the modern data stack. Arrow, columnar memory, zero-copy.
Polars · DataFusion · Sail - 02AI inference
Why inference left Python. Latency, footprint, deterministic memory.
Candle · Burn · ort - 03Agent infra
Tool servers, embeddings, sandboxed execution, observability.
MCP · vector stores · sandboxes - 04Web + systems
The async runtime and the small dependency list most projects need.
Tokio · Axum · reqwest