Rust + Axum Async Microservice Guide: Job Queue, Retries, and Graceful Shutdown

Build a production-ready async microservice with Rust and Axum: job queue, background workers, exponential backoff retries, and graceful shutdown. Includes full project structure and Docker example.

August 17, 2025 · Rexai Programming
Complete implementation and best practices for Rust Axum graceful shutdown

Rust Axum Graceful Shutdown, The Ultimate Guide: Fix the pitfall 99% of engineers hit

Master graceful shutdown for Rust Axum services: listen for SIGINT/SIGTERM, refuse new connections with with_graceful_shutdown, stop background tasks via CancellationToken, set timeouts, and integrate with Docker/Kubernetes termination — protect data integrity and user experience.

August 17, 2025 · Rexai Programming
Build a high‑performance Web server with Rust and Axum

Rust + Axum, from zero to hero: build a high‑performance Web server the LEGO way

A step‑by‑step Axum guide to build a modern high‑performance Web service: routing, path and query parameters, JSON, shared state, and middleware (tracing, CORS) with complete code samples and best practices.

August 14, 2025 · Rexai Programming
The difference between Tokio tasks and OS threads

Stop treating tokio::spawn as a thread! I launched 1000 tasks in 2 seconds and the system stayed calm

tokio::spawn is not a thread but a lightweight task. Under Tokio’s scheduler you build highly concurrent services with sleep, timeout and select — 1000 tasks in 2 seconds with negligible overhead.

August 11, 2025 · Rexai Programming
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