Tag: rust

Rewriting my blog in Rust

I rewrote this blog from Flask to Rust over an afternoon. The result is a single 3.5 MB binary that uses 14x less memory and serves 10x more requests per second.

Isaac Bythewood Isaac Bythewood
2026-05-06
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Isaac Bythewood Isaac Bythewood
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