Rust Vs. Go: Building a Container Network Stack From Scratch - Matt Heon & Shivang K Raghuvanshi

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Don't miss out! Join us at our next KubeCon + CloudNativeCon events in Mumbai, India (18-19 June, 2026), Yokohama, Japan (29-30 July, 2026), and Shanghai, China (8-9 September, 2026). Connect with our current graduated, incubating, and sandbox projects as the community gathers to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing. Learn more at https://kubecon.io Rust Vs. Go: Building a Container Network Stack From Scratch - Matt Heon, Red Hat & Shivang K Raghuvanshi, Podman Container Tools For over a decade, Go has been the language of choice for cloud native development. But is it always the right choice? When the Podman team built their new network stack, Netavark and Aardvark, despite many years of Go experience, they chose Rust instead. This talk covers the practical reasons they chose Rust, the concrete advantages it offered, and the tradeoffs made moving to another language. Join Matt Heon, Podman core maintainer, who will discuss how and why the decision was made, and Shivang K Raghuvanshi, LFX mentee, who will talk about his experiences contributing to the project and fixing a critical bug in the network stack, showing how mentorship in Open Source can solve real, difficult problems.