776: How 1Password Uses WASM and Rust for Local First Dev With Andrew Burkhart

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Wes Bos

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🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Today we’re serving up an episode on 1Password with Senior Rust Developer Andrew Burkhart, delving into how 1Password works, tackling conflict resolution and security challenges, and exploring the benefits of using Rust. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax 00:57 Who is Andrew Burkhart? 01:36 How does 1Password work? 03:24 What’s the data flow on creating a new login? 05:40 The conflict resolution challenges of pull first, push second. 06:46 Merging strategies: How do you chose which device wins the conflict? 08:27 1Password’s sync is fast and reliable. 11:20 Nuances of the extension. 12:59 The value of Hackathons. 13:40 What’s the main benefit of 1Password using Rust? 15:41 Watchtower processing. 17:15 1Password SSH. 18:17 1Password env. 19:11 Some other cool tools. 20:33 Does the increased security make developing challenging? 25:26 What’s 1Password’s security onboarding like? 27:47 1Password and WASM. 31:45 Tokio as the asynchronous runtime for Rust. 34:25 Scott’s Rust based video app. 35:03 What is an FFI? 38:13 How did you learn Rust? Jon Gjengset - Rust Nation UK YouTube. Let’s Get Rusty YouTube. 41:13 Why is the 1Password team so big? 42:40 Are there teams that manage individual applications for errors? 43:45 Challenges with WASM. 48:59 Syntax horror stories. Episode 586 with Eric Sartorius. 52:50 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs. Sick Picks Andrew: Nix Mini 3, Asynchronous Programming in Rust. Shameless Plugs Andrew: 1Password. Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott:X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

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0:00.0	Welcome to Syntax. Today we've got a pretty interesting episode on Rust, on Wasm, on One Passward,
0:10.1	on all kinds of interesting things. We've got Andrew Burkhart on, who is a on just kind of I always like to chit chat with people about like what they're doing at
0:24.1	their company and how they're approaching it and one password is a really
0:27.4	interesting platform because there's so many different places where one
0:31.9	password will live.
0:33.6	There's so many different applications,
0:34.8	there's browser extensions,
0:35.8	there's iOS apps, things like that.
0:37.6	But then there's also like,
0:39.0	there's cryptography and things need to happen locally
0:42.3	and it's a, it needs to work offline it has to happen it has to
0:46.2	sink data there's all kinds of really interesting stuff so yeah I ask them if you would come
0:50.5	on and talk to us a little bit about how that all works.
0:53.3	So welcome Andrew, thanks for coming on.
0:55.3	Yeah, thanks for having me.
0:57.1	You want to give us a quick rundown of who you are, what you do and at 1 password?
1:01.8	Yeah, definitely.
1:02.4	So like you said, I'm Andrew.
1:03.8	I'm a senior Russ developer at one password.
1:06.8	Work on, we call it the Framework's team.
1:09.7	Naming obviously gets hard with bigger teams, but we work on kind of like the lowest level of our
1:16.4	Russ core so things like the data layer some of the networking stuff, synchronization, things like that.
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