This book is designed for two categories of reader—experienced Rust developers who are new to microservices, and advanced microservice developers who are new to Rust. I've tried to cover the ecosystem of useful tools and crates available for Rust developers today. This book describes the creation of microservices, from high-level frameworks to constructing low-level asynchronous combinators that produce responses with minimal resource blocking time. This book aims to allow you to find the solution to a specific task.

To be able to understand the topics covered in this book, you need a solid background in the Rust programming language (you should be able to write and compile applications using cargo, understand lifetimes and borrowing concepts, know how traits work, and understand how to use reference counters, mutexes, threads, and channels). If you are unfamiliar with Rust, take the time to understand these concepts before reading this book.

You also have to know how to write a minimal backend working on an HTTP protocol. You have to understand what REST is, and how to use it for applications. However, you don't have to understand how HTTP/2 works because we will use crates that provide abstractions agnostic to specific transport.