Show HN: Turbo Registry – Rust Docker Registry for AI Cuts Cold Starts by 90%

I’m Paul, the CEO of Mystic (YC W21). Today, we're launching our Turbo Registry, a new type of Docker registry built in Rust. It's designed specifically for AI/ML inference deployments, which typically have larger container sizes. Traditional Docker registries suffer from slow download times, which can be a significant bottleneck in AI inference workflows when going from 0->1. Our new registry has high bandwidth parallel downloading when connected with our new containerd adapter. This adapter changes the way images are mounted and downloaded and interfaces with a new V3 API specification we have introduced in our registry. We will be open-sourcing this later this year but will keep it closed-source as we develop it further for the moment.

With Turbo Registry, we achieved:

• 5GB Docker images loading in 10.23 seconds (down from 82.21 seconds)

• 10GB Docker images loading in 14.75 seconds (down from 147 seconds)

• 20GB Docker images loading in 23.72 seconds (down from 270.47 seconds)

You can use the registry today behind our serverless endpoints.

Information about the roadmap and current limitations can be found in the documentation. Check out our documentation here to get started with Turbo Registry and experience the speed boost in your AI projects. We’re looking forward to your feedback and contributions!