The latest articles on DEV Community by Ira Murphy (@murphy_90). https://dev.to/murphy_90 https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4210577%2F36b0a1e8-686a-43f8-8137-6cd19b6151e5.jpg https://dev.to/murphy_90 en Ira Murphy Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:40:13 +0000 https://dev.to/murphy_90/rewriting-a-glue-script-in-rust-was-it-worth-it-5723 https://dev.to/murphy_90/rewriting-a-glue-script-in-rust-was-it-worth-it-5723 <p>I had a ~200-line bash script that glued together a few AWS CLI calls, did some retries, and wrote a report. It worked, but nobody wanted to touch it.</p> <p>I rewrote it in Rust over a weekend. The honest verdict:</p> <p>Good:</p> <ul> <li>Typed config and real error handling</li> <li>Retries with backoff that I actually trust</li> <li>A binary I can drop on any machine</li> </ul> <p>Bad:</p> <ul> <li>Compile times for a trivial tool</li> <li>AWS SDK is a lot of dependency surface</li> </ul> <p>Would I do it again? For a tool other people run, yes. For a one-off, probably not — I'd write it in Python and spend the time on tests instead.</p> <p>I'm learning Rust more seriously now. The borrow checker stopped feeling like an enemy around week three, which I'm told is normal.</p> rust devops automation