This repository documents my journey in learning backend development with Rust, guided by the book
Zero To Production in Rust.

The goal of this project is to build a production-grade web service while exploring the Rust ecosystem,
modern backend practices, and tools for reliability and performance.

• Fundamentals of Rust for backend systems
• HTTP APIs with actix-web
• Database access with SQLx
• Migrations with sqlx-cli
• Testing (integration & unit) in Rust
• Error handling and resilience patterns
• Logging & observability with tracing
• Continuous integration with GitHub Actions
• Deployment to DigitalOcean using Docker and automated pipelines
• Transactional email delivery via Postmark

• Rust (latest stable)
• Cargo for package management
• Actix Web for the web framework
• SQLx for async database access
• PostgreSQL as the database
• Docker for containerization
• Trunk / cargo-watch for live reload during development
• GitHub Actions for CI/CD
• DigitalOcean for hosting and deployment
• Postmark for reliable email delivery