C++ vs Rust: an async Thread-per-Core story

Edit: due to a trademark issue, the project formerly known as Scipio was renamed to “Glommio”. The article was edited to match.

I have recently released a new Rust library aimed at easing the task of writing asynchronous Thread-per-Core applications: Glommio. I intend to use it to power the new generation of storage intensive systems I am writing for my current employer, Datadog.

But I am no novice to such systems: for the past 7+ years I have worked for ScyllaDB, a NoSQL database that managed to consistently post 5 to 10x…