Building a Tiny Guestbook App with Rust and Scratch Containers
Building a small statically linked rust webserver for a guestbook app into a tiny multi-arch docker container.
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Owen Elliott
Solutions Architect & ML Engineer specialising in Information Retrieval
I am a solutions architect with experience building AI-powered systems that solve complex real-world problems. I have a diverse background ranging from simulation engines for mining operations to creating real-time multimodal personalization systems that serve millions of users daily.
Currently, my focus is in information retrieval and vector search technologies. At Marqo, I built scalable multimodal search systems that power major eCommerce platforms, combining cutting-edge research in dense retrieval and multimodal representation learning with production-grade engineering. I actively contribute to the field through research on approximate nearest neighbor algorithms and vector search implementation.
On this site you will find some of my articles, projects, and papers!
Latest Articles:
Dockerising Unbound DNS
Creating a small docker container for an updated unbound.
Rethinking Vector Search Experiences
Demonstrating UI components to deliver interesting vector search experiences.
Recent Papers:
Featured Projects:
Ingrain Inference Server
A high performance scalable wrapper around NVIDIA Triton to serve Timm, OpenCLIP and Sentence Transformers models
HNSWLib Server
A zero dependency statically linked Vector Search Engine built with HNSWLib, it supports filtering on schemaless metadata via its own DSL.
Arcache: Threadsafe Caches in Rust with a shared Trait
A number of caching algorithm implementations written in rust using inner mutability for thread safety. Most interestingly they use the same trait as a base making them modular.
Tiny Guestbook
A lightweight, self-hosted guestbook app that lets guests leave star ratings and reviews. Built with Rust and SQLite, the Docker image compresses down to just a few MB.
Requestor
A lightweight cross platform app for sending HTTP requests and checking responses. Fully local with an included SQLite DB, syntax highlighting, and support for saving and tagging requests.
Unbound Docker
A dockerised version of Unbound providing recursive DNS resolution. Built from source with the latest security patches, compressing down to just 7MB.