Rust Performance in 2026 — Benchmarking, Profiling, and Real Wins
Practical Rust perf: criterion benchmarks, perf flamegraphs, dhat for allocations, common bottlenecks, and the discipline of measure-then-optimize.
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Rust Async Traits in 2026 — Native AFIT, Send Bounds, and the Patterns That Stuck
Practical Rust async traits: AFIT (async fn in traits), trait_variant for Send bounds, dyn-compatibility, and where async-trait crate still earns its keep.
SQLx Patterns in 2026 — Rust + Postgres Without the ORM
Practical SQLx: query! macro vs runtime queries, migrations with sqlx-cli, transactions, FromRow, and the discipline that makes SQLx shine.
Rust CLI Apps in 2026 — clap, indicatif, ratatui, and the Patterns That Ship
Production Rust CLI patterns: clap derive, async with tokio, progress bars with indicatif, TUIs with ratatui, config layering, and shipping cross-platform binaries.
Axum Middleware in 2026 — Tower, Layers, and Production Patterns
Practical Axum middleware: auth, request ID, tracing, rate limiting, error mapping, and how Tower’s layer composition actually works.
Rust Error Handling in 2026 — anyhow, thiserror, and the Patterns That Survive
Production Rust error handling. anyhow for binaries, thiserror for libraries, error wrapping, panic policy, and the patterns from real codebases.
Modern Rust Tooling in 2026 — cargo, clippy, fmt, and Workspaces
Productivity Rust tooling for 2026. cargo, clippy, fmt, workspaces, nextest, watch, and the strict-lints that catch bugs in CI.
Tokio Async Fundamentals — A Backend Engineer's Guide to Rust Async
What async Rust feels like once it clicks — Tokio’s runtime, tasks vs futures, JoinSet, channels, cancellation, select!, and the shape of every concurrency pattern you’ll need on the backend.
Production HTTP Service in Rust — Axum 0.8, sqlx, and Postgres
A from-scratch production Rust HTTP service. Axum 0.8, sqlx with compile-time-checked queries, structured errors, request tracing, layered middleware, and the exact project layout I use.