Software Architect

Marcel Koch

Software Architect

Marcel is an independent software architect and consultant focused on building long-lived, maintainable systems. He works with companies in industrial and technical domains to develop cross-platform applications for mobile, desktop, embedded, and web.
His work centers around a stable domain core that separates business logic from infrastructure, enabling systems to evolve over many years. He regularly supports teams in modernizing existing systems and introducing sustainable architectures.
Marcel is co-author of the Rust book published by dpunkt Verlag. He uses Rust to build robust and reliable software across platforms, coaches in Non-Violent Communication and teaches Rust and software architecture in hands-on trainings.

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Back to the future: building "Cloud Functions Lite" with Rust and CGI

November 03 2026 - 11:30 (45 min )

CGI is largely forgotten but combined with Rust, it becomes a surprisingly practical deployment model for shared hosting. This session revisits the Common Gateway Interface and shows how to build simple, robust, and cost-effective web backends without a running server process.
Drawing on real B2B projects in industrial measurement, we cover webhook handlers and payment integrations built with cgi-rs, axum-based routes, and tower middleware including a performance comparison between Rust CGI and PHP.

LEVEL: Intermediate

Back to the future: building "Cloud Functions Lite" with Rust and CGI

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RustLab is a conference made by Develer.
Develer is a company based in Campi Bisenzio, near Florence. Our motto is : "Technology to give life to your products". We produce hardware and software to create exceptional products and to improve industrial processes and people's well being.
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