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#rust | #tantivy

December 15, 2019

Understanding what new code does without reading it

I recently started working on a ticket in tantivy that allows users to customise the weight of a field by increasing/decreasing the score of documents that match the query in a specific field. Read more
#rust | #trading

October 26, 2019

Using intuition to avoid reading binary

In the previous write-up we found that the itchy parser failed to parse mostly similar messages from 2 different market data files. Read more
#rust | #trading

October 23, 2019

Scratching NASDAQ's ITCH

I am building yet another order book tool in Rust, which requires me to parse L3 (full) market data feed from NASDAQ. Read more
#rust | #tantivy

June 18, 2019

Using Docker to reproduce a read-only file system

This is part 2 of my journey adding read-only mode to tantivy. Read more
#rust | #tantivy

June 16, 2019

Don't mistake file permissions for read-only fs mounts

I enjoy contributing to tantivy, a Lucene-like library in Rust. Read more
#rust

January 19, 2019

Rust - from 0 to productive in 2 weeks

This is a story of me going from making sarcastic jokes about rewriting everything in Rust to becoming one of them growing to like the language. Read more
#rust | #wasm

September 30, 2018

Compiling a Rust library to wasm

Since finding Paul Masurel’s tantivy searching/indexing library, I thought it would be cool to make the library available for the browser. Read more