We Rewrote JSONata with AI in a Day, Saved $500K/Year | Reco
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Reco's principal data engineer used AI to rewrite JSONata (a JavaScript-based JSON query language) as a pure-Go library called gnata in about 7 hours, spending $400 in AI tokens. The original setup ran jsonata-js pods on Kubernetes, costing ~$300K/year and adding ~150 microsecond RPC overhead per evaluation across billions of
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An expensive language boundaryBuilding gnataTwo-tier evaluationShadow mode and the week afterBeyond gnata - the next $200KNo longer just vibe codingTry it3 Comments
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