Build Your Own Mini Actor Framework: Run Concurrency Like a Coffee Shop
A hands-on guide to building a usable mini Actor framework in Rust from scratch: Actor, Addr, spawn, supervise, a simple registry, message passing, and HTTP interaction.
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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.
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.
Rust Async State Machine, Unmasked: How Future, poll, and Waker Really Work
A practical deep dive into Rust async: why calling an async function doesn’t run it, how the compiler turns async into a state machine, and how executors drive tasks forward with poll and Waker. Understand the real mechanics behind async/await.
Rust Async Unveiled: The Secret to Making Code 'Slack Off' While Doubling Efficiency!
Deep dive into Rust async programming core concepts, from async/await to Future, from tokio runtime to concurrent processing. Master zero-cost async programming essence and double your Rust code efficiency!