How We Migrated the Heart of Our Platform to Rust
Security Boulevard, Monday, June 1st, 2026
Rewriting legacy software in Rust has been a trend in recent years. So much that it did not only spawn numerous rewrites but also its own meme. When we decided to migrate our secret detection engine to Rust, one of our main goals was performance: Our Python implementation was fast, but given that we scan hundreds of gigabytes on a daily basis, even small improvements can massively reduce our costs.
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