1. They are either already familiar with Rust or are planning to start learning the language.
2. They have a commercial background in software engineering using other programming languages and are aware about the tradeoffs in developing software using different programming languages.
3. They have a basic familiarity with networking concepts.
4. They can appreciate why distributed systems are important in modern computing.

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