Full disclosure first: I am co-founder at OrcaSheets and editor of The Fifth Elephant Pune edition.
My co-founders - Navdeep and Mayur - are running the workshop on Rust’s type system for data engineering workshop at Rust India 2026.

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But also: I won’t be writing this if I didn’t think the conference was worth your day.

If you’ve been watching the data stack shift over the last two years, you already know the names: Polars, DataFusion, Arrow. What you might not have clocked yet is that this isn’t just a performance story. It’s a correctness shift. And Rust is at the center of it.

Rust India 2026 is on 18 April in Bengaluru, and the data infrastructure track this year is strong.

Nimalan Mahadevan is talking about the paradigm shift in database engineering with DataFusion.
Kranti Parisa and Krishna Vishal Vemula are presenting on Apache Iggy, a streaming engine that goes well past Kafka-level throughput/latency.
Priyanshu Verma is covering portable Edge ML inference in Rust.

These aren’t framework surveys. These are people building the layer beneath your pipelines, and they’re here to show the work.

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On 17 April, the day before the conference, there are two hands-on workshops:

Type-safe data engineering in Rust - build pipelines with compile-time schema guarantees, using patterns from DataFusion and Polars - by Navdeep and Mayur of OrcaSheets
Concurrent cache in Rust - design and evolve a thread-safe cache with real-world concurrency primitives by Sarthak Makhija of Kaizen

Bonus: The Fifth Elephant annual members get a conference ticket at Rs. 3,800.
Note: conference tickets do not include workshops. These need to be booked separately.

If runtime type errors and silent schema failures are a recurring tax on your team, this is the room where people are solving that at the compiler level. I’d recommend being there.

Rust India 2026 Conference | Workshops on 17 April at e6data | Conference on 18 April at NIMHANS Convention Centre - https://hasgeek.com/rustbangalore/rust-india-conference-2026/

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