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Rust Development Services

Memory-safe, garbage-collector-free systems code for engineering teams that have a security deadline and no Rust hires to meet it.

AlphaCorp AI's Rust development services put senior Rust engineers on your C/C++ migration, greenfield systems service, or latency-sensitive AI infrastructure, and ship code that removes whole classes of memory-safety bugs at compile time without a garbage collector. The service covers architecture, incremental rewrites of parsers and hot paths, reviews of unsafe and foreign function interface (FFI) boundaries, and embedded or safety-critical work on a qualified toolchain. It is built for CTOs and heads of engineering who face US memory-safety guidance and the EU Cyber Resilience Act, whose reporting obligations begin on 11 September 2026, and who cannot staff a Rust team fast enough.

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Track record

Creators of RustyRAG

Realtime RAG, built in Rust
Ignas Vaitukaitis, Founder and CEO of AlphaCorp AI10+ years delivering AI solutionsIgnas Vaitukaitis · Founder & CEO
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Rust development services by the numbers, 2025 to 2026

The case for Rust rests on published production numbers and on a regulatory clock that has already started.

1000xfewer memory-safety vulnerabilities per million lines in Android's Rust code than in its C/C++ codeGoogle, 2025
48.8%of respondents' organizations use Rust, up from 45.5% in 2024State of Rust Survey, 2025
Sep 2026reporting obligations begin under the EU Cyber Resilience ActEuropean Commission
Overview

What our Rust development services build

AlphaCorp AI builds six kinds of Rust work, and each one targets a specific place where C/C++ risk or garbage-collector latency is costing you.

01

C and C++ to Rust migration

We rewrite the components that carry the most memory-safety exposure, such as parsers, codecs, network handlers, and cryptographic wrappers, behind their existing interfaces, so callers keep working while the internals change. Meta's 2026 WhatsApp rewrite followed this shape, moving media parsing from about 160,000 lines of C++ to about 90,000 lines of Rust.

02

Greenfield services and network infrastructure

Async services, proxies, and storage layers in the mold of AWS Firecracker and Cloudflare Pingora, built with the official AWS SDK for Rust where your stack runs on AWS.

03

Rust for AI infrastructure

Retrieval engines, inference serving, and data pipelines where garbage-collector pauses blow the tail-latency budget. This is the work behind our RAG development practice.

04

Unsafe and FFI boundary audit

A review of every unsafe block and FFI crossing in an existing Rust codebase, because that is where a 2021 ACM study of all disclosed Rust CVEs found the overwhelming majority of memory-safety bugs.

05

Embedded and safety-critical Rust

Firmware and control software on the Ferrocene toolchain, which holds TÜV SÜD qualification for ISO 26262 ASIL D, IEC 61508 SIL 3, and IEC 62304 Class C.

06

Rust inside your existing delivery pipeline

Build, test, and deployment wiring through our software engineering and MLOps and DevOps teams, so Rust lands in your CI instead of beside it.

Bar chart of estimated memory-safety vulnerabilities per million lines of code in Android in 2025. C/C++ code: about 1,000. Rust code: 0.2, highlighted, a gap of roughly 1000 times.
Android's Rust code shows an estimated 0.2 memory-safety vulnerabilities per million lines, against about 1,000 in its C/C++ code. Google, 2025
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The Stack We Ship On

We pick the best tool for each job, not the trendiest. This is what runs behind the agents, retrieval pipelines and automation we put into production.

Languages
PythonRustTypeScript
Foundation Models
AnthropicOpenAIGeminiLlamaMistralHugging Face
Fast Inference
GroqCerebrasOpenRouterReplicateOllamavLLM
Agents & Orchestration
LangGraphLangChainLlamaIndexCrewAIn8n
Vector & Memory
MilvusPineconepgvectorChromaWeaviateRedis
Voice, Image & Fine-Tuning
ElevenLabsLiveKitVapiComfyUIPyTorch / LoRAModal
Cloud & Delivery
AWSAzureGoogle CloudDockerKubernetesVercel
Evals & Observability
LangSmithLangfuseWeights & BiasesGrafana
Process

How an AlphaCorp AI Rust development services engagement runs

An engagement runs in five sequential steps, from a ranked risk map to a handover your own engineers can maintain.

01

Codebase and risk scoping

We map which components carry memory-safety exposure and which carry latency budgets, then rank them by blast radius and by compliance date.

02

Architecture and boundary design

We decide where the FFI boundary sits, which crates are trustworthy for your domain, and whether a qualified toolchain like Ferrocene is required.

03

Incremental build and migration

Rust replaces one component at a time behind the existing interface, so C/C++ callers never notice the swap.

04

Unsafe review, testing, and benchmarking

Every unsafe block gets a written justification and a second reviewer, and each component is benchmarked against its C/C++ baseline before it ships.

05

Handover and team enablement

We pair with your engineers throughout, so the Rust capability stays after the contract ends.

Benefits

Why invest in Rust development services now

The case for Rust rests on published production numbers from 2025 and 2026, plus a regulatory clock that started in 2024.

01

Whole vulnerability classes disappear at compile time

NIST's safer-languages guidance cites Rust's ownership model, which guarantees memory safety and thread safety without requiring a garbage collector. Buffer overflows and use-after-free bugs become compiler errors instead of CVEs.

02

Faster, safer change velocity

Google measured a 4x lower rollback rate and about 25% shorter code review time for Rust changes in Android in 2025. Fewer regressions, quicker merges.

03

C++-class performance without GC pauses

A 2022 benchmarking study on everyday routines found Rust close to C++ with only minor disadvantage, and some Rust routines outperforming their C++ equivalents. AWS cites the same no-GC performance as its reason for running Rust in Firecracker, S3, EC2, CloudFront, and the Nitro System.

04

A compliance story auditors already recognize

The June 2025 NSA and CISA guidance names Rust as a language that neutralizes buffer overflows and use-after-free exploits by design.

05

Adoption that has crossed into the mainstream

Organizational Rust use rose from 38.7% in 2023 to 45.5% in 2024 to 48.8% in 2025 per the State of Rust Survey, and Rust entered the TIOBE top 10 for the first time in July 2026. Among organizations running Rust in production in 2025, 84.8% said it helped them reach their goals.

Column chart of the share of State of Rust Survey respondents whose organization uses Rust. 2023: 38.7 percent. 2024: 45.5 percent. 2025: 48.8 percent, highlighted as the latest figure.
Nearly half of State of Rust Survey respondents, 48.8%, said their organization uses Rust in 2025. State of Rust Survey, 2025
Use Cases

Rust development services in action across industries

Rust has already proven itself in six production patterns, and those patterns are the shapes of work AlphaCorp AI takes on.

Cloud virtualization and storage

AWS runs Rust in Firecracker, the microVM layer under Lambda and Fargate, and in parts of S3 and EC2.

Network proxies and edge services

Cloudflare's Pingora handles tens of millions of requests per second in Rust, and its Oxy framework underpins Zero Trust Gateway and iCloud Private Relay.

Media and file parsing on end-user devices

WhatsApp's Rust media parser ships monthly to billions of devices across Android, iOS, web, and wearables, prompted by the unpatchable 2015 Stagefright vulnerability.

Cryptographic libraries

Microsoft is rewriting SymCrypt, the library under Windows, Azure Linux, and Xbox, in Rust with formal verification, covering AES-GCM through post-quantum ML-KEM and ML-DSA.

Operating systems and drivers

After the 2025 Kernel Maintainer Summit, Rust became a permanent, supported part of Linux kernel development, with production code in Android's Binder driver, GPU drivers, and filesystem and network subsystems.

Automotive, industrial, and medical firmware

Ferrocene's qualifications open Rust to ISO 26262, IEC 61508, and IEC 62304 programs.

Why AlphaCorp AI

Why AlphaCorp AI for Rust development services

AlphaCorp AI is the engineering studio behind RustyRAG, an open-source retrieval-augmented generation engine with sub-200ms retrieval, written in Rust. The team is remote-first, based in Rio de Janeiro, works US Eastern hours, and operates in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. We are the right partner when the blocker is hiring and the risk is concentrated in code you can name.

We solve the hiring problem you have already hit. A 2021 University of Maryland study presented at USENIX SOUPS found that difficulty recruiting developers already qualified in Rust was among the most-cited drawbacks of adoption, and the 2025 State of Rust Survey still lists insufficient industry usage as respondents' top concern at 42.1%. You get senior Rust engineers on day one, and pairing means the capability stays in your building.

We tell you where Rust will not save you. Rust reduces memory-safety risk without eliminating it. Recent studies put direct unsafe usage at roughly 19 to 25% of published crates, mostly for FFI and performance paths, and bugs inside those blocks mirror C/C++ logic errors. Embedded is harder still: a 2024 ACM CCS study of 6,408 embedded Rust packages found peripheral-access-crate support for only 37% of microcontroller families, unsafe code in 48.5% of embedded crates, and static-analysis false-positive rates of 40 to 90%. If your target MCU is not covered, we say so before you sign.

The tradeoff, stated up front. Rust has a steep learning curve, and a 2021 multicore N-body study found comparable performance to C alongside real differences in programming effort. A rewrite costs more than a patch. That is why step one of every engagement ranks your components by exposure, so you spend only where the risk justifies it. Where the hot path is not the problem, our Python development services are the cheaper answer.

The people you talk to are the people who build. No handoff from a sales engineer to a bench you never met. Read about how the studio works.

Security and compliance in our Rust development services

AlphaCorp AI's Rust work maps directly to the memory-safety guidance that regulators and auditors now cite. Four documents set the bar.

The White House ONCD's February 2024 report argues that manufacturers can eliminate entire vulnerability classes by moving from C and C++ to memory-safe languages. The June 2025 NSA and CISA joint guidance names Rust, Go, and Java, building on the agencies' 2023 call for vendors to publish memory-safety roadmaps by the end of 2025.

NIST's Secure Software Development Framework, SP 800-218, which federal agencies have attested against since 2022, situates memory-safe language adoption inside a documented development process. The EU Cyber Resilience Act imposes security-by-design obligations on products sold in the EU, with reporting duties from 11 September 2026.

In practice, engagements run inside your repositories, your CI, and your review process. Every unsafe block ships with a written justification, which is the artifact an auditor asks for first.

FAQ

Rust development services FAQs

What are Rust development services?

Rust development services are contracted engineering, consulting, and staffing for software written in the Rust programming language, typically for teams that need memory-safe systems code and cannot hire Rust engineers fast enough. AlphaCorp AI's version covers C/C++ migration, greenfield services, AI infrastructure, unsafe and FFI audits, and embedded work on a qualified toolchain. The common thread is code that runs without a garbage collector and without the memory-safety bug classes that dominate C/C++ CVEs.

How much do Rust development services cost?

Scope decides the cost, and a scoping call prices it. The main drivers are the number of components in the migration, the amount of unsafe or FFI surface they contain, and whether a safety-certified toolchain such as Ferrocene is required. Ranking components by exposure first keeps the budget on the code that carries real risk.

How long does a Rust migration take?

Duration follows the size of the ranked component list, because each component ships independently behind its existing interface. Small parsers and handlers land first, and the timeline extends with each additional component or certification requirement. The scoping step at the start of every AlphaCorp AI engagement produces a component-by-component estimate.

Should we rewrite everything in Rust or only part of the codebase?

Rewrite the components with the highest memory-safety exposure and leave the rest. Google's 2025 Android data shows the payoff comes from where new and risky code lands, with more first-party platform code written in Rust than C++ during the first three quarters of 2025 while older C++ stays in place. WhatsApp did the same, replacing only its media-parsing path. A full rewrite is rarely the cheapest route to the same security result.

Is Rust actually memory safe, or is that marketing?

Safe Rust is proven memory safe, and the risk moves to unsafe blocks. RustBelt, a 2018 formal verification project, gave the first machine-checked proof that safe Rust code cannot exhibit undefined behavior even when built on libraries with unsafe internals. A 2021 ACM study of all disclosed Rust CVEs then found the overwhelming majority trace back to unsafe code, which is why boundary review is part of every AlphaCorp AI engagement.

Can Rust integrate with our existing C++ and Python systems?

Yes, through the FFI boundary, and that boundary is where the engineering care goes. Rust components expose the same interface the C/C++ callers already use, so the surrounding system keeps running during migration. Because FFI crossings are the main reason crates contain unsafe code, each one gets documented and reviewed instead of waved through.

What happens after the Rust code ships?

Your engineers own it, because they paired on it. AlphaCorp AI hands over documented unsafe justifications, benchmarks against the original C/C++ baseline, and CI wiring, and can stay on for follow-on components or the next compliance milestone. Ask on the call and we will scope it with the rest.

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