Rivers
a Rust/Python orchestrator with native OIDC and forward auth
Details
- External ID
- 49044862
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Rivers
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- July 25, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1081242532855436
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I've been building Rivers for the past 7 months, an asset-based orchestrator. The core components such as planning, scheduling etc are in Rust and the user facing API is in Python.My most recent release adds OIDC and forward auth support. Security shouldn't be paywalled :)
Enrichment
- Theme
- self-hosted infrastructure and security tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- orchestration framework for rust and python
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While basic task schedulers can be vibe-coded, an asset-based distributed orchestrator with mixed Rust/Python bindings, DAG execution engine, and auth proxies is too architecturally complex.
What it would actually take: Requires a Rust core engine handling DAG scheduling, state persistence, and concurrent execution pools exposed to Python via PyO3, accompanied by an embedded forward-auth reverse proxy supporting OpenID Connect flows. The challenging aspects include robust asset lineage tracking, distributed lock contention, crash recovery, and high-performance cross-language FFI overhead.
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