Rust Systems Programming Projects Handbook : Build High-Performance CLI Tools, Concurrent Services, Network Applications, and Production APIs with Carg
Overview
Build Real-World Rust Applications with Confidence-From Your First CLI Tool to Complete Systems Projects.
Knowing Rust syntax is one thing. Building reliable, efficient, and maintainable software that handles concurrency, networking, databases, and real-world failures is another.
Rust Systems Programming Projects Handbook takes you beyond the fundamentals with a practical, project-driven approach to modern Rust development. Through 36 carefully structured chapters, you'll learn to design, build, test, debug, and deploy systems applications while mastering the engineering principles behind them.
Inside this hands-on guide, you'll learn how to:
- Master Rust fundamentals: Apply ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, traits, smart pointers, memory management, and Cargo workspaces.
- Build powerful CLI tools: Create file processors, parallel indexers, and resilient command-line applications.
- Write concurrent and asynchronous Rust: Use threads, channels, Tokio, task scheduling, cancellation, and backpressure.
- Develop network applications: Implement TCP servers, UDP collectors, framed protocols, and fault-tolerant clients.
- Build secure REST APIs: Combine Axum, SQLx, and PostgreSQL with authentication, authorization, and persistent storage.
- Test and optimize applications: Explore unit testing, property testing, fuzzing, benchmarking, profiling, and failure recovery.
- Prepare applications for deployment: Work with Docker, CI/CD, security checks, monitoring, and operational runbooks.
Put everything together with ForgeRelay, an integrated Rust capstone project combining an authenticated API, background workers, PostgreSQL persistence, networking, and recovery workflows.
With practical code examples, guided exercises, troubleshooting techniques, and eight technical reference appendices, this handbook helps you develop the skills to tackle increasingly complex Rust systems projects.
Ideal for: Rust learners, software developers, backend engineers, and systems programmers ready to move beyond basic tutorials.
Go beyond writing Rust code. Learn to engineer systems you can understand, test, and maintain.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798167946873
- ISBN-10: 9798167946873
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: November 2026
- Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 1.11 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.07 pounds
- Page Count: 548
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