Radar replaced their Elasticsearch/MongoDB-based geospatial search backend with a single Rust binary.

Here's the story: https://corrode.dev/podcast/s05e08-radar/

Highlights:
- Rust's performance allows recomputing and reloading large in-memory datasets at startup. This simplifies operations and rollbacks.
- They ended up choosing Rust for its predictable memory behavior (not just performance)
- A team of mostly TypeScript developers successfully onboarded to Rust

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