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by jodrellblank 1524 days ago
> Several components of the Dropbox core file-storage system were written in Rust as one step in part of a larger project to pursue greater datacenter efficiency. It’s currently used by all Dropbox storage today, serving >500 million users.

> Figma Our real-time multiplayer syncing server (used to edit all Figma documents) is written in Rust.

> npm, Inc - Replacing C and rewriting performance-critical bottlenecks in the registry service architecture.

> OVH - We used Rust to build a high performance, highly available log management system.

> QCERT (Qatar's National CERT) - DNS log analysis pipeline entirely written in rust, running on top of our own Rust stream processing platform.

> 1Password - We use Rust to power the entire backend (encryption, networking, database, and business logic) of all our client apps.

> Fire and Emergency NZ - The New Zealand Fire Service is using a custom geolocation search engine, built in rust, that runs on embedded hardware within a fire truck to stream hazard information to a fire crew at an incident.

> Deliveroo - We are using Rust to quickly make assignment decisions in our food delivery network.

> System76 - As a Linux-based computer-manufacture, much of our infrastructure and desktop Linux projects are written in Rust. From hardware certification, flashing, and imaging; to system services and GTK3 desktop applications.

> Canonical - Everything from server monitoring to middleware!

> Cloudflare - We are using Rust as a replacement for memory-unsafe languages (particularly C) and are using it in our core edge logic.

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(that "the top of one person's head" is what defines existant vs non-existant, many wouldn't agree).