Engineering

Building HorizonDB in production

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Binh Robles

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November 5, 2025

Built and scaled in production, HorizonDB powers Radar geocoding and search APIs with a Rust-based engine using FST and Tantivy for fast, precise, and reliable location search.

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Engineering

How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB

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Jeff Kao

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August 7, 2025

Radar offers geocoding, place search, and fraud detection APIs, powered by HorizonDB, a Rust-based engine delivering 20k QPS and sub-millisecond latency.

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Engineering

Introducing HorizonDB

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Tim Julien

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May 28, 2024

Introducing HorizonDB, Radar's next generation geospatial database

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Engineering

How Radar uses TypeScript to manage Terraform via CDKTF

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Jeff Kao

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September 13, 2022

Learn how Radar uses TypeScript to manage Terraform via CDKTF.

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Engineering

How businesses use beacons to power location-based experiences

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Sam Fader

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June 29, 2022

Bluetooth beacons are a powerful tool for delivering location-based experiences. In this blog, we will cover the basics about beacons, permissions requesting, and common use cases.

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Engineering

An Android location services tutorial for iOS developers

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Nick Patrick

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March 9, 2017

This is the tutorial I wish I had as an iOS developer learning Android location services.

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