While upgrading dependencies (basically deleting Cargo.lock) in a big rust project I hit an issue. A new commit in serde_json caused has upstream failure in another library, jmespath, and possibly more crates. Because these structs and enums visibility h…

With the new std::future way of doing things and tokio slowly reaching maturation, it's time to look at updating the libraries out there that are using the old ways. For one of my libraries, tmq, a Tokio ZeroMQ library, there is some awesome work already…

2019 was another huge year for rust, but instead of implementing the shiny new thing, it's been a focus on refining existing ideas. Having being using rust professionally for over 3 years, I feel I will very soon be regailing new rust developers of the ti…

Last article I wrote about how to use tensorflow with rust. This time we're going to take what we've built on, and serve it as an HTTP API call. As Actix Web is nearing its inevitable 1.0 release, I thought it would be a great time to build something wi…

One of the promises of machine learning is to be able to use it for object recognition in photos. This includes being able to pick out features such as animals, buildings and even faces. This article will step you through using some existing models to ac…

TMQ is a rust library to use ZeroMQ within the Tokio ecosystem. ZeroMQ is a distributed messaging queue written in C supporting a number of different messaging patterns. While there are other options out there (including gRPC, etc..), I settled on ZeroM…

2018 was a massive year for rust, and it's great to reflect back on how far we've all come. My main wish for the new year is to put on the breaks a little bit, and finish off what has been started without taking on anything majorly new. There are a coupl…