InfoQ - Culture & Methods - Presentations https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Culture & Methods Presentations feed Presentation: Accelerating Performance by Incrementally Integrating Rust Into Existing Codebase https://www.infoq.com/presentations/rust-refactoring/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Culture+%26+Methods-presentations <img src="https://res.infoq.com/presentations/rust-refactoring/en/mediumimage/lily-mara-medium-1788338447565.jpeg"/><p>Lily Mara explains how to avoid high-risk software rewrites through incremental FFI refactoring. She shares how engineering teams can replace Python bottlenecks with Rust via PyO3, demonstrating how to achieve dramatic function-level speedups, seamless integration testing, and meaningful infrastructure cost savings without microservice overhead.</p> <i>By Lily Mara</i> Refactoring Transcripts QCon San Francisco 2025 Rust Culture & Methods Development presentation Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:34:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/presentations/rust-refactoring/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Culture+%26+Methods-presentations Lily Mara 2026-09-10T09:34:00Z /presentations/rust-refactoring/en