Hey everyone, I thought I’d share a cool success story about using Rust in a big project. Last year, we launched a backend for a large company’s website that handles around 100,000 requests every minute. Pretty intense, right?
We built it using Rust with Axum and Tower. It’s deployed as a Lambda function on AWS for form processing, and we’re using DynamoDB for data storage.
I must say, it’s working like a charm! The performance is solid and we’ve avoided major issues.
I’m sharing this because I often hear that Rust isn’t suited for real-world applications, yet our experience clearly shows it can manage heavy workloads. Has anyone else tried using Rust for big projects? What were your results?
thats awesome! i’ve been using rust for a smaller project (like 5k req/min) and its been great. love the performance and safety. curious tho, how was the learning curve for your team? did u face any challenges with libs or async stuff? keepin it under 100k lines?
wow thats impressive! ive been wanting to try rust for bigger projects. how did u handle error handling at that scale? any tips for optimizing rust for high traffic? also, curious about your monitoring setup - what tools are u using to keep an eye on performance? sounds like a cool project to learn from!
Your project clearly demonstrates the robust capabilities of Rust in handling intensive workloads. I have worked on a similar migration where replacing our legacy system with Rust resulted in significant performance gains and a noticeable decrease in resource consumption. The language’s stringent type safety and memory management features helped reduce run-time errors considerably, which allowed smoother scaling under pressure. While the transition demanded an upfront investment in learning, the long-term improvements in reliability and maintenance have proven to be worthwhile.