Zeebe and Rust - interview with Mackenzie Clark

Camunda Community Podcast

An interview with Mackenzie Clark, the maintainer of the open source Zeebe Rust client - Zeebest. We talk about Rust, Web Assembly, and Zeebe.
Check out Zeebest on GitHub: https://github.com/xmclark/zeebest

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Chapters

1. Zeebe and Rust - interview with Mackenzie Clark (00:00:00)

2. Introduction (00:00:01)

3. Mackenzie's journey in programming (00:01:47)

4. Working on WebAssembly at Wasmer (00:05:48)

5. Working on Distributed Systems (00:09:58)

6. How Mackenzie stumbled onto Zeebe (00:12:23)

7. Comparison with Netflix Conductor (00:15:19)

8. Comparison with Apache Airflow (00:16:38)

9. Zeebe and BPMN (00:17:18)

10. Documentation that never goes out of date (00:19:20)

11. The Rust Ecosystem (00:22:33)

12. High-level programming in Rust (00:27:53)

13. How do you pronounce "Zeebest"? (00:34:12)

14. Zeebest Versioning Strategy (00:35:12)

15. Upcoming features in Zeebest (00:35:43)

16. Developing locally with Zeebe (00:43:14)

17. Upcoming features in Zeebe 0.21 (00:43:52)

18. What motivates you to maintain Zeebest? (00:46:20)

19. How to get involved in Zeebe with Rust (00:47:33)