Talk at Rust Nation UK 2025

Last week, I had the chance to give a talk at Rust Nation UK 2025, one of the biggest Rust conferences.

The YouTube talk is already up, thanks to the conference team. If you prefer slides, here they are.

As always, I love talking about performance, optimisation, and Rust. So my topic was both useful and engaging (with a pun) - “Parallel Programming in Rust: Techniques for Blazing Speed”.

We covered a lot: high-level parallelism with Rayon and thread pools, the parallelism theory, concurrency primitives, low-level primitices (atomics, lock-free algorithms, SIMD, cache efficiency, profiling) and even GPUs - diving deeper and deeper to the hardware. The talk was probably a bit dense, but I hope it provides a solid overview of modern parallel computing approaches and gives ideas on where to go next.

I was impressed by the conference content. The keynotes from Mark Russinovich and Celina Val were inspiring and reassuring about integrating Rust into existing codebases. There were in-depth technical talks about libraries, language and kernel bindings, the evolution of both the ecosystem and the language. The workshops were also useful and practical about async and C++ interop.

And, of course, one of the best part of the event was the vibrant, friendly, and passionate community, always ready for a great discussion. Looking forward to attending the next one!