#Rust

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InfluxDB: The Time-Series Engine Rebuilt in Rust — and the Open/Closed Split You Must Know

InfluxDB 3 Core is a 31k-star, MIT/Apache-2.0 time-series engine written in Rust on the Arrow/DataFusion/Parquet stack. A 5,000-word teardown of the v3 rewrite, the diskless object-storage architecture, line-protocol ingest, the built-in Python processing engine, the hard split between open-source Core and closed-source Enterprise, and exactly where your telemetry lands.

2026-09-21 82 views

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Meilisearch: The Open-Source Search Engine That Makes Algolia's Invoice Disappear

Meilisearch is the MIT-licensed, Rust-built search engine with 55,000+ stars that ships typo tolerance and sub-50ms results out of the box. Here's why it feels instant, what it really costs, and where its scaling ceiling sits.

2026-09-02 101 views

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RustDesk: The Open-Source Remote Desktop That Lets You Own the Relay Server

RustDesk is the AGPL-3.0 remote desktop with 113,000+ stars that replaces TeamViewer and AnyDesk by letting you self-host the relay. Here's how it works, what the Pro tier really gates, where your screen data lands, and the AGPL trap to know before you embed it.

2026-08-29 106 views

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OpenCut: The Open-Source CapCut Alternative That Keeps Your Footage on Your Drive

OpenCut is the MIT-licensed, 68k-star open-source video editor that processes everything locally — no watermarks, no subscriptions, no footage uploaded to someone else's servers. A 5,000-word dive into its Rust/WASM architecture, how it compares to CapCut, the self-host path, and what it honestly can't do yet.

2026-07-26 173 views

# Rust

InfluxDB: The Time-Series Engine Rebuilt in Rust — and the Open/Closed Split You Must Know

Meilisearch: The Open-Source Search Engine That Makes Algolia's Invoice Disappear

RustDesk: The Open-Source Remote Desktop That Lets You Own the Relay Server

OpenCut: The Open-Source CapCut Alternative That Keeps Your Footage on Your Drive