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Notes from the engineering side of the work: architecture decisions, benchmarks with the test environment documented, and the reasoning behind the trade-offs we made.
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Beyond Frameworks: Building TileserveX for Ultra-Low Latency Geospatial Processing
Vector tile servers usually force a choice between the ergonomics of a dynamic framework and the raw speed of a compiled binary. Pairing Plug and Cowboy with Rust NIFs removes the trade-off — here is the architecture behind TileserveX, and what the benchmarks showed.
- Architecture
- Benchmarks
- What the results mean
More engineering notes are on the way. Each one documents a decision we actually made, with the measurements behind it.