bacon VS tangram

See the github repo here https://github.com/aftix/bacon

In this post, we will go over how we optimized our Gradient Boosted Decision Tree library. This is based on a talk that we gave at RustConf 2021: Writing the Fastest Gradient Boosted Decision Tree Library in Rust. The code is available on GitHub.

We are using Rust for our web application and website at Tangram. You can view the source here: https://github.com/tangramdotdev/tangram/tree/main/crates/www. The website is at https://www.tangram.dev. We decided to write our own web framework because we needed server rendering and we wanted to use the builder pattern in creating components. Here is an example component for our Logo to get a sense of what this looks like: https://github.com/tangramdotdev/tangram/blob/main/crates/www/ui/logo.rs

Check out https://github.com/tangramdotdev/tangram.

Tangram | Senior Rust Programmer | Remote | https://www.tangram.dev

Tangram is an all in one machine learning framework designed for programmers. With Tangram, developers can train models and make predictions on the command line or with libraries for languages including Elixir, Go, JS, Python, Ruby, and Rust, and learn about their models and monitor them in production from a web application. To learn more about what the product does, watch the demo on the homepage at https://www.tangram.dev or check it out on GitHub at https://www.github.com/tangramdotdev/tangram.

We are looking to grow our engineering team with senior Rust programmers. We are currently based in Boston, MA but are looking to build a remote team. At Tangram, you'll get to work on everything from our core machine learning algorithms to writing front-end code in Rust! We are looking for developers with experience in Rust and familiarity with or willingness to learn machine learning concepts. If this sounds exciting, email me (Isabella, cofounder) at [email protected].

We chose to use Rust instead of TypeScript for the front end of https://github.com/tangramdotdev/tangram.

This allows us to:

* Share code with our server written in Rust.

I'm working on machine learning in Rust at Tangram. We currently only provide an implementation of linear models and gradient boosted decision trees but will move into exposing training of deep models in the future. You can check out Tangram here: https://github.com/tangramdotdev/tangram. You may also be interested in checking out Linfa https://github.com/rust-ml/linfa. If you're interested in the future of machine learning in Rust, check out Luca Palmieri's blog post: https://www.lpalmieri.com/posts/2019-12-01-taking-ml-to-production-with-rust-a-25x-speedup/

Great idea! We definitely want to do this. We have an open issue to track it: https://github.com/tangramdotdev/tangram/issues/28.

Hi HN! We are Isabella and David, and we're excited to share Tangram, our attempt to make it easy for programmers who are not machine learning experts to train, deploy, and monitor machine learning models. With Tangram, developers train a model from a CSV file on the command line, make predictions with libraries for Elixir, Go, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, and Rust, and learn about their models and monitor them in production with a convenient web app. Watch the video on the homepage: https://www.tangram.dev, or check it out on GitHub: https://github.com/tangramdotdev/tangram.

Over the past few months we have been working closely with a handful of early users. A team at a small company had a TensorFlow model deployed as a Flask service consumed by their Elixir app. They replaced it with a Tangram model because they didn't want to maintain a server separate from their monolith. A team of front end engineers at a large company was looking for a way to to train and deploy models on their own, without the overhead of involving their data scientists, machine learning engineers, or backend engineers. They trained a model on their own and embedded it directly in their React front-end with the Tangram JavaScript library that makes predictions with WebAssembly.

Tangram is written entirely in Rust, from the core machine learning algorithms, to the bindings for each language, to the front and back end of the web application. We have benefited from Rust's fast performance, strong typing, convenient tooling, and high quality libraries (serde, tokio, hyper, sqlx, and more).

We hope to make Tangram a sustainable business with the "open core" business model. The CLI and language libraries are MIT licensed, while the web application is source available, free to use for testing, but requires a paid license to use in production.

We would love to hear your feedback. Give it a try and let us know what you think!