
Ruth Linehan explains how migrating high-performance caching services from Kotlin to Rust shattered internal preconceptions around delivery velocity and engineering overhead. She discusses the ergonomics of the Rust borrow checker, shares…


A lot of platform teams face a problem: they build a lot of really cool stuff, and then their developers don't use it. Be visible to management, talk to stakeholders and listen to their problems, make your value measurable with metrics…
Event triggers fire on DDL and login events, not rows—and a buggy one can lock out every user, even superusers.

Slides and transcript from How much do you really need to know about databases? at EuroPython 2026 in Kraków, Poland on 15 July 2026. I will add a link to the recording once it's available. I've included just very brief alt-text for each…