The final part of the Async Rust with Tokio series. Backpressure to prevent cascade failures, rate limiting, connection pool tuning, health checks for Kubernetes, and zero-downtime deployments. The operational patterns that determine whether a Tokio service survives production load.
Tag: graceful shutdown
Async Rust with Tokio Part 6: Building a High-Performance HTTP Backend with Axum
Building a production HTTP backend in Rust means more than wiring up routes. This post builds a complete Axum service with connection pooling, structured middleware, unified error handling, and graceful shutdown – patterns that hold up under real production load.
Real-Time WebSocket Architecture Series: Part 6 – Production-Grade Features
Part 6: Production-grade WebSocket features including automatic reconnection with exponential backoff, heartbeat monitoring, message acknowledgments, state recovery, and graceful shutdown.
