Hi! I'm Eliza. I maintain tokio, tracing, and other open-source Rust libraries, both professionally and in my spare time.

What I'm Working On

The main projects I'm currently working on are:

• tracing: Application-level tracing for Rust (crates.io|github)

  I'm the author and primary maintainer of tracing, a collection of libraries for adding structured, contextual, and async-aware diagnostic instrumentation to Rust programs. tracing and its ecosystem of crates allow collecting structured, machine-readable execution traces from user-defined instrumentation points in Rust programs. This data can be used to generate logs, distributed traces, metrics, and more.

• tokio: Rust's async runtime (website|crates.io|github)

  I'm a member of the core maintainer team for Tokio, the pre-eminent asynchronous runtime for the Rust programming language. Tokio provides core primitives for asynchronous, event-driven applications, like async IO, timers, a task scheduler, and synchronization primitives.

• tokio-console: A debugger for async Rust (github)

  I'm the primary maintainer of the the Tokio Console project. The Tokio Console provides a suite of debugging tools for asynchronous Rust applications, built on top of tracing.

What You Get

An important disclaimer: This is not how I pay the bills. I'm not a consultant, and I'm not primarily supported by community donations. I have a job, and a lot of my open-source work is done as part of my job. Instead, I've enabled GitHub Sponsors specifically because a few people have said that they appreciate my work, and want a way to say 'thank you' that's a bit more than...just saying thank you. So, if I'm doing something that you find particularly useful or important, and you want to buy me a fancy cup of coffee or something, I'd really appreciate it, but please be aware that this isn't how I pay rent.

Having said all of that, if you still want to show support for what I'm working on, thank you! I really appreciate it! 🤍

Additionally, I will offer specific services for some donation levels. For example, I'm willing to provide hands-on support on your organization's Slack or other chat app for a recurring donation, or spend some time looking at closed-source software (including signing your NDA) for a one-time donation. However, this is not a formal consulting or support agreement. Instead, you're essentially paying to influence how I choose to spend my spare time: in exchange for a donation, I'll spend some of my weekend coding time helping with your issues, rather than working on my hobby operating system or something. :)