The Rust Ecosystem: Essential Crates for Production Development
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Rust
Getting Started with Rust
Language Basics: Variables, Types, and Expressions
Ownership: The Heart of Rust
Borrowing, References, and Slices
Structs, Enums, and Pattern Matching
Modules, Crates, and Visibility
Collections and Strings
Project 1: Building a CLI Task Manager
Error Handling in Rust
Generics, Traits, and Associated Types
Lifetimes: Complete Understanding
Smart Pointers and Interior Mutability
Iterators, Closures, and Functional Patterns
Concurrency: Fearless Parallelism
Project 3: Parallel Data Processing Pipeline with rayon
Asynchronous Programming with async/await
Macros, Unsafe Rust, and FFI
Testing, Documentation, Performance, and Deployment
The Rust Ecosystem: Essential Crates for Production Development
Advanced Topics: Compiler, Debugging, Security, and Anti-Patterns
WebAssembly with Rust
Embedded Rust and no_std Development
Conclusion: The Rust Mindset

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Deploying the User API

Deploying the User API

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October 31, 2026

Deploying the User API

Containerizing the API into a multi-stage Docker build producing a single 15MB container running as an unprivileged user.

Benchmarking the User API

sqlx: Async Database Access