High Leverage

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Ep. #6, Async Runtime For Rust with Carl Lerche of Tokio
Thursday, 29 January, 2026

On episode 6 of High Leverage, Joe Ruscio sits down with Carl Lerche, Principal Engineer at AWS and creator of Tokio. Carl shares his journey from Ruby and Rails into Rust, and explains why memory safety, fearless concurrency, and async runtimes matter for modern infrastructure. The conversation dives deep into the origins of Tokio, lessons from building foundational open source software, and how Rust’s guarantees are shaping the future of systems engineering.Want 10% off your ticket to TokioConf? Use the discount code: Heavybit10