Rust Web Development: Building Fast, Reliable Backends with Axum, Actix, and Tokio

By Ethan Crossley

Reactive Publishing

In the world of modern web development, speed, reliability, and memory safety aren't optional, they're essential. Rust Web Development is your complete guide to harnessing Rust's legendary performance and rock-solid concurrency model to build scalable APIs, microservices, and full-featured web applications.

What You'll LearnDeep dives into the Rust async ecosystem with Tokio, the backbone of high-concurrency Rust applicationsPractical, real-world web frameworks: Build robust applications with both Axum (the ergonomic, tower-powered framework from the Tokio team) and Actix Web (the battle-tested, actor-based framework)How to structure large-scale Rust projects with clean architecture, proper error handling, and modular designDatabase integration, authentication & authorization, testing strategies, logging, observability, and deploymentPerformance optimization, graceful shutdowns, rate limiting, and production hardening techniquesComparing Axum vs Actix Web, when to choose each and how to migrate between them

Whether you're a seasoned Rustacean looking to level up your web skills or a backend developer curious about Rust's power for server-side development, this book provides clear explanations, practical examples, and battle-tested patterns you can apply immediately.

Build the fast, secure, and reliable backends the industry increasingly demands, with Rust.

Perfect for intermediate to advanced developers ready to move beyond "hello world" and ship production-grade Rust web services with confidence.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H788724M
• ISBN13: 9798185209370
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"