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Last article too theoretical? Here’s hardcore code to get your Rust distributed system running
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Last article too theoretical? Here’s hardcore code to get your Rust distributed system running

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.

When traffic surges like a flood, equip your Rust microservices with four gates—rate limiting, backpressure, batching, and middleware—using Tokio + Tower. Keep P99 steady and make speed happen in order.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
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!