Show HN: We dropped Go for Rust in our real-time telephony AI media plane

Category: infrastructure

Tags: real-time-audio, rust, telephony-ai

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 4, Utility: 6)

This project describes Vivik, a real-time telephony AI engine that addresses sub-500ms latency constraints by splitting the architecture into a Go-based control plane and a Rust-based media plane, using lock-free data structures and SIMD optimizations. It provides a detailed engineering post-mortem comparing Go vs Rust in hard real-time audio processing, making it interesting for teams building voice AI systems.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, data engineers

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