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 
[email protected]
    
  
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Gábor Szabó
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Gábor Szabó
Hosts: Gábor Szabó