Tinkering fuels innovation and curiosity. It allows us to truly understand the tools and systems we work with at a granular level. Recently, I've been tinkering with Rust, a language gaining popularity for building reliable, safe, and sustainable systems at scale. The best way to learn is by doing. So, I turned our simple summarization proof of concept, Distill, into a CLI leveraging Rust's performance and memory safety advantages. As builders, it's our responsibility to continuously look for optimizations in everything we do. To ask questions and challenge the status quo. To learn and be curious. I encourage you to give Distill CLI a try, tinker with it, and share your feedback. And as always – now, go build! #AWS #tinkering https://lnkd.in/e7HUQwEt
One of the things we ask senior leaders at Caylent to do is continue coding, tinkering, and building. Sellers should always be closing. Builders should always be coding. Software development is a perishable skill and having forcing functions that keep you close to your code and products is a super power that helps you stay at the forefront of technology. Honestly, I wish more AWS PMs, GMs, and VPs routinely used their services and built demos like this.
Nice one and heads up, Werner Vogels. I added multi-language support to your tool. It works quite well for me in Swiss German. Try your mother tongue with "-l nl-NL". https://github.com/awslabs/distill-cli/pull/5 🇨🇭 🇳🇱
Thanks for sharing, exciting! Rust has come to stay. https://ronnyfuchs.blogspot.com/2024/02/4-wochen-4-sprachen-rust.html?m=1
Thanks for this post. The key is summarized in the last few sentences. “If you take nothing else away from this post, I encourage you to actively look for efficiencies in all aspects of your work. Tinker. Measure. Because everything has a cost, and cost is a pretty good proxy for a sustainable system”. Languages are tools 🛠️! The tool selection is also important.
Building a meeting summary tool that allows you to store any data in your account(s) is a great idea. I’m excited to take a look at this over the weekend out of curiosity.
Really excited to see Amazon support, encourage, and invest in Rust. It's a fantastic language well suited for so many uses cases. From everything from CLI tools, embedded systems, web APIs, and even serverless workloads.
“If you take nothing else away from this post, I encourage you to actively look for efficiencies in all aspects of your work. Tinker. Measure. Because everything has a cost, and cost is a pretty good proxy for a sustainable system.” ❤️
sounds like you're diving deep into rust. tinkering is the way to go. kudos
Smart developers, always look for ways to optimize and challenge the norm!
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1moanother rustacean for the ranks... 😊