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Meilisearch – search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search

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be_erik ◴[14 Apr 25 14:00 UTC] No.43681389[source]▶
Is meilisearch ready for production workloads? I would love to use some of the feature set, but is the only option for HA running multiple instances and keeping them in sync?
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Kerollmops ◴[14 Apr 25 14:48 UTC] No.43681927[source]▶
Meilisearch has been production-ready since v1.0. I made it in Rust to ensure it stays production-ready for years and years. Memory-safe languages are here to replace unsafe ones like C++ and reduce the number of breaches you expose in production.

Here is an article by Google showing the benefits of using memory-safe languages in production rather than others. It is explicitly rotating around Rust [1].

[1]: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...

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1. sealeck ◴[14 Apr 25 14:52 UTC] No.43681961[source]▶
Writing software in Rust doesn't necessarily mean that it works reliably for real-world workloads. Sure, Rust prevents you from doing lots of stupid things; it is very much in the class of "necessary but not sufficient condition" for writing software (of course, you can also use other languages, but memory safety should be table stakes for all software these days).