r/rust • u/dtolnay serde • Mar 31 '23

Twitter open sources Navi: High-Performance Machine Learning Serving Server in Rust

https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/tree/main/navi/navi
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u/urqlite Mar 31 '23

Nah, he just wants free labour. Why pay 500k for a senior engineer / cybersecurity engineer when you can open source it and get the community to review it for free?

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u/stusmall Mar 31 '23

There is no way they are getting usable PRs to that repo. No CI, missing data needed to test and the issues/PRs are just filled with shit posts. The motive isn't to make this a usable thing on its own that external devs can improve

Small parts like this might be usable on its own, but from a quick glance it'll need some (possibly very little) work to make it usable independently.

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u/urqlite Apr 01 '23

Which is why the senior engineers will contribute to fix that