Grab has long relied on Golang for most of its microservices. In this article, we look at how Grab migrated their counter service from Go to Rust, resulting in a 70% cost reduction.
> In open source, the number of GitHub stars can reflect how widely a project is used and how much community support it may receive.
Why would Github stars reflect this? There's real usage data that can be used for this. Github stars can be gamed, and they don't necessarily mean that someone's using the library. For instance, I use Github stars to "follow" or "bookmark" a project. Others use it as the equivalent of a "like" button in social media.
On the other hand, crates.io provides download stats for each crate in their "Stats Overview" section. Repo forks is also a metric that can indicate how big the maintainer/contributors community is.
Original author here, thanks for analysing my blog post and sharing it here! Always been a fan of Alex and bytebytego, it's an honour to be featured.
> In open source, the number of GitHub stars can reflect how widely a project is used and how much community support it may receive.
Why would Github stars reflect this? There's real usage data that can be used for this. Github stars can be gamed, and they don't necessarily mean that someone's using the library. For instance, I use Github stars to "follow" or "bookmark" a project. Others use it as the equivalent of a "like" button in social media.
On the other hand, crates.io provides download stats for each crate in their "Stats Overview" section. Repo forks is also a metric that can indicate how big the maintainer/contributors community is.