In 2025, Async Rust finally feels production-normal. This post covers a practical stack—Tokio + axum + SQLx + tracing/OTel—and the patterns that actually move the needle in prod:
- Backpressure by default (bounded buffers, concurrency limits)
- Timeouts, retries with jitter, and cancellation tokens
- Structured logs and OTLP traces for rich observability
- Hermetic integration tests with
testcontainers - Graceful shutdown + readiness/health checks
👉 Read the full article with copy-paste snippets here:
https://medium.com/@ashishjsharda/rusts-async-ecosystem-building-scalable-apps-in-2025-7fc3ce1cca56
If you’re running Rust services at scale, I’d love your feedback and war stories in the comments. 🚀
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