Axum Web Development in Rust: The Complete Guide for Developers and Engineers

"Axum Web Development in Rust"

Axum Web Development in Rust is a definitive guide for experienced developers seeking to master backend web development with the Axum framework and Rust’s robust, type-safe ecosystem. This comprehensive book reveals Axum’s architectural philosophy and async foundations, contrasting it with other leading Rust web frameworks to illuminate its distinctive modularity, scalability, and performance. Through detailed chapters, readers learn best practices for structuring large-scale applications, establishing effective tooling, and exploiting the capabilities of the wider Tower middleware ecosystem.

The book delves deep into advanced routing, request handling, and state management, equipping readers with the expertise to design complex APIs with strong typing and ergonomic extraction. It covers essential patterns for dependency injection, concurrency, middleware composition, serialization, validation, and seamless integration with modern ORMs. Security is addressed holistically, encompassing TLS, authentication and authorization protocols, vulnerability mitigation, and runtime security tools for both development and deployment.

Going beyond application logic, Axum Web Development in Rust addresses critical concerns for production environments. Readers discover robust strategies for testing, observability, and performance tuning, as well as cloud-native deployment patterns such as Kubernetes, serverless, and CI/CD automation. The book culminates in advanced guidance for building real-world architectures, optimizing performance, supporting multi-protocol APIs, enabling seamless legacy integration, and future-proofing projects in the evolving Rust landscape, making it an indispensable reference for professional Rust web developers.

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Release date

Ebook: 24 July 2025