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Effective Backend Development in Rust: Build Scalable APIs, Web Services, and Microservices Using Actix, Axum, and Tokio
Building modern backends is harder than ever. Developers are expected to deliver APIs that are blazing fast, secure, and highly scalable—but most resources only scratch the surface, leaving you to piece things together with trial and error. If you’ve ever struggled with messy architectures, unpredictable performance, or fragile deployments, you know the pain of backend development done wrong.
Now imagine having a clear, complete roadmap that shows you exactly how to design, code, and ship production-grade backends in Rust—a language built for performance, safety, and concurrency. With frameworks like Actix Web and Axum, plus the power of Tokio, you can finally write services that don’t just run… they scale effortlessly, stay reliable under pressure, and keep bugs where they out of production.
Effective Backend Development in Rust is your step-by-step guide to building real-world APIs, services, and microservices. You’ll move beyond tutorials and toy examples, learning the tools, patterns, and architectural practices that leading companies already rely on Rust for in high-throughput, mission-critical environments. By the end, you’ll have the confidence and skills to design, build, and deploy backends that truly stand the test of scale.
What you’ll gain from this
Master asynchronous programming in Rust with Tokio, avoiding data races and concurrency pitfalls.
Build high-performance APIs with both Actix Web and Axum, and know when to use each.
Implement secure authentication and authorization with JWT, OAuth2, and RBAC.
Integrate seamlessly with databases (SQL and NoSQL), connection pools, and async queries.
Design and deploy microservices that communicate via REST, gRPC, and message queues (Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ).
This book is for you
You’re a backend developer (junior or senior) who wants to build scalable, production-ready systems.
You’ve worked with Go, Node.js, or Python but want the performance and safety advantages of Rust.
You’re tired of incomplete tutorials and want a comprehensive guide that goes from first line of code to cloud deployment.
This book is not for you
You only want surface-level syntax tricks or “Hello, World” apps.
You’re looking for frontend or game development (this book is strictly backend-focused).
Inside, you’ll
How to structure projects for maintainability and scale.
Async programming, error handling, and safe concurrency patterns.
REST API best practices, validation, versioning, and OpenAPI integration.
Real-world deployments with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
Case studies of Rust in production, including SaaS APIs, microservice systems, and real-time services.
Now imagine having a clear, complete roadmap that shows you exactly how to design, code, and ship production-grade backends in Rust—a language built for performance, safety, and concurrency. With frameworks like Actix Web and Axum, plus the power of Tokio, you can finally write services that don’t just run… they scale effortlessly, stay reliable under pressure, and keep bugs where they out of production.
Effective Backend Development in Rust is your step-by-step guide to building real-world APIs, services, and microservices. You’ll move beyond tutorials and toy examples, learning the tools, patterns, and architectural practices that leading companies already rely on Rust for in high-throughput, mission-critical environments. By the end, you’ll have the confidence and skills to design, build, and deploy backends that truly stand the test of scale.
What you’ll gain from this
Master asynchronous programming in Rust with Tokio, avoiding data races and concurrency pitfalls.
Build high-performance APIs with both Actix Web and Axum, and know when to use each.
Implement secure authentication and authorization with JWT, OAuth2, and RBAC.
Integrate seamlessly with databases (SQL and NoSQL), connection pools, and async queries.
Design and deploy microservices that communicate via REST, gRPC, and message queues (Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ).
This book is for you
You’re a backend developer (junior or senior) who wants to build scalable, production-ready systems.
You’ve worked with Go, Node.js, or Python but want the performance and safety advantages of Rust.
You’re tired of incomplete tutorials and want a comprehensive guide that goes from first line of code to cloud deployment.
This book is not for you
You only want surface-level syntax tricks or “Hello, World” apps.
You’re looking for frontend or game development (this book is strictly backend-focused).
Inside, you’ll
How to structure projects for maintainability and scale.
Async programming, error handling, and safe concurrency patterns.
REST API best practices, validation, versioning, and OpenAPI integration.
Real-world deployments with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
Case studies of Rust in production, including SaaS APIs, microservice systems, and real-time services.
512 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 21, 2025
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