Merge pull request #2131 from mainmatter/rust-talk-stefan-baumgartner

Add Stefan's Rust interview

src/posts/2023-09-28-exploring-rusts-impact-on-costs-and-efficiency.md

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+---
+title:
+  "Exploring Rust's impact on efficiency and cost-savings - with Stefan
+  Baumgartner"
+authorHandle: marcoow
+tags: [rust]
+bio: "Marco Otte-Witte"
+description:
+  "Stefan Baumgartner and Marco Otte-Witte discuss the impact of Rust on
+  efficiency and operating costs and Stefan's experience learning and teaching
+  Rust."
+og:
+  image: /assets/images/posts/2023-09-28-exploring-rusts-impact-on-costs-and-efficiency/og-image.png
+tagline: |
+  <p>Senior Product Architect at Dynatrace Stefan Baumgartner and Mainmatter’s Founder Marco Otte-Witte discuss the benefits and use cases of Rust adoption and Stefan shares his experience learning and teaching Rust first-hand.</p>
+
+image: "/assets/images/posts/2023-09-28-exploring-rusts-impact-on-costs-and-efficiency/header-visual.jpg"
+imageAlt: "Stefan's picture on a gray background"
+---
+
+According to Marco Otte-Witte, Founder of Mainmatter, and Stefan Baumgartner,
+Senior Product Architect at Dynatrace, Rust allows developers to write more
+stable software with fewer maintenance issues and higher efficiency, resulting
+in cost savings for companies. In the interview, Stefan shared his experience
+introducing Rust to Dynatrace’s platform, and how they delivered a functioning
+prototype within a few days for a particular use case. Ever since, his team at
+Dynatrace has been able to maintain and run the Rust-based product smoothly with
+minimal issues, proving that Rust is a stable and efficient language for such
+projects.
+
+The conversation then moves to Stefan's personal experience with programming
+languages and his journey to learning and teaching Rust. He discussed his
+background with languages like C, C++, and C# and his first transition to web
+development with JavaScript.
+
+Stefan highlights the importance of understanding memory management and
+low-level concepts when programming, which Rust enforces and guides programmers
+through. He debated how teaching Rust to others, especially those familiar with
+dynamic or scripted languages, brings a fresh perspective and empowers
+developers to write efficient and reliable software. Learning Rust may be more
+challenging for those already accustomed to certain concepts like automatic
+garbage collection, as they need to adapt to a new way of dealing with
+obstacles. Therefore – Stefan explained - it is important to provide learners
+with concrete problems to solve when teaching Rust and encourage them to work
+towards a goal.
+
+Lastly, Stefan discusses different timelines from his own experience and
+suggested that having mentors and guidance throughout the learning process is
+essential for success in Rust due to its explicit decision-making requirements
+and complex concepts.
+
+<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KTJIsicwW5s?si=fk_MRap9FIzbP44U" title="Embedded video of Stefan's interview" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>