Why We Moved From Pony To Rust — Wallaroo.
Wallaroo delivers pushbutton productionization of ML models today, but that wasn’t always the case. Our new Rust-based platform recently handled millions of inferences a second of a sophisticated ad-targeting model with a median latency of 5 milliseconds, and a yearly infrastructure cost of $130K.
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https://www.wallaroo.ai/blog-posts/wallaroo-move-to-rust
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Interesting, I didn’t even know Pony was being used in production anywhere to start with…
But in short, they chose to switch to Rust for a (Much) Larger library ecosystem, especially in ML work, however they were even more pleased after switching to Rust with its ease of accessing C APIs, maturity, extensive documentation, can do everything Pony can and more, and a much more extensive pool of developers to pull from.
I have been saying it for a while now, but smaller more independent languages have their work cut out against those backed by giants…
