Rust on Hi, I'm Muhammad Amal https://muhammadamal.my.id/tags/rust/ Recent content in Rust on Hi, I'm Muhammad Amal Hugo en-us Mon, 10 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0700 Embedding wasmtime in a Rust Host, A Hands On Guide https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/embedding-wasmtime-in-a-rust-host-hands-on-guide/ Mon, 10 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/embedding-wasmtime-in-a-rust-host-hands-on-guide/ A practical embedding tutorial for wasmtime 28, with resource limits, fuel-based metering, async, and clean shutdown patterns. Compiling Rust to Wasm with cargo component, A Step by Step Tutorial https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/compiling-rust-to-wasm-with-cargo-component-step-by-step-tutorial/ Wed, 05 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/compiling-rust-to-wasm-with-cargo-component-step-by-step-tutorial/ Build a real WASI 0.2 component from scratch with cargo-component 0.18, WIT bindings, and a wasmtime host that calls it. Lessons From a Year of Rust, Postgres, and AI Agents https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/lessons-from-year-rust-postgres-ai-agents/ Fri, 20 Dec 2024 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/lessons-from-year-rust-postgres-ai-agents/ The combination that defined my 2024. What I learned about each, what I learned about their intersection, and what I would do differently. Shipping Rust to Kubernetes, Smaller Images and Faster Cold Starts https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/shipping-rust-kubernetes-distroless-docker-2024/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/shipping-rust-kubernetes-distroless-docker-2024/ Production guide to shipping Rust to Kubernetes with multi-stage Docker, distroless images, and cross-compilation. Rust Service Observability in 2024, Metrics, Logs, and Traces That Help https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/rust-service-observability-metrics-logs-traces-2024/ Mon, 25 Mar 2024 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/rust-service-observability-metrics-logs-traces-2024/ Production observability for Rust services with the metrics crate, Prometheus, tracing, and OpenTelemetry. Safe Shared State in Rust, Arc, Mutex, and the Channel You Should Pick https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/rust-shared-state-arc-mutex-channels-2024/ Wed, 20 Mar 2024 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/rust-shared-state-arc-mutex-channels-2024/ Practical guide to Arc, Mutex, RwLock, and channel choices for safe shared state in async and threaded Rust. Rust to WebAssembly at the Edge, Wasmtime and WASI in 2024 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/rust-webassembly-edge-wasmtime-wasi-2024/ Mon, 18 Mar 2024 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/rust-webassembly-edge-wasmtime-wasi-2024/ Compile Rust to WebAssembly for edge runtimes with wasmtime 18, WASI Preview 2, and the component model. Embedded Rust in 2024, Embassy and the no_std Stack https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/embedded-rust-embassy-no-std-2024/ Wed, 13 Mar 2024 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/embedded-rust-embassy-no-std-2024/ Practical guide to embedded Rust in 2024 with embassy 0.5, no_std, and async on Cortex-M and ESP32 hardware. Building an HTTP Service with Axum 0.7, From Zero to Tracing https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/axum-http-service-tracing-2024/ Mon, 11 Mar 2024 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/axum-http-service-tracing-2024/ Axum 0.7 end-to-end. Extractors, error types, middleware layers, OpenTelemetry tracing. The setup that pays off by week two. Async Rust Without the Footguns, Tokio Patterns in 2024 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/async-rust-tokio-patterns-2024/ Wed, 06 Mar 2024 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/async-rust-tokio-patterns-2024/ Async Tokio patterns that survive prod. Cancellation, JoinSet, select, bounded channels. The footguns and how to dodge them. Rust in Production, Where the 2024 Stack Has Matured https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/rust-production-2024-stack/ Mon, 04 Mar 2024 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/rust-production-2024-stack/ Rust in production 2024 — what’s mature, what still bites. Async runtimes, frameworks, observability, deploy. Honest survey for backend devs. Rustls vs OpenSSL for Backend TLS in 2023 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/rustls-vs-openssl-backend-tls/ Fri, 28 Jul 2023 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/rustls-vs-openssl-backend-tls/ When to pick rustls and when to stay with OpenSSL for Rust backend TLS — performance, deployment, and compliance trade-offs from production experience. Production HTTP APIs with axum 0.6 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/axum-0-6-production-apis/ Tue, 25 Jul 2023 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/axum-0-6-production-apis/ A production-shaped axum 0.6 service — state, extractors, middleware, tracing, and the patterns that survive load testing. Error Handling in Rust, thiserror, anyhow, and the Patterns That Scale https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/error-handling-thiserror-anyhow/ Fri, 21 Jul 2023 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/error-handling-thiserror-anyhow/ Rust error handling that holds up in production: thiserror for libraries, anyhow for applications, and the context patterns in between. Building Secure CLIs in Rust with clap 4 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/building-secure-clis-clap-4/ Tue, 18 Jul 2023 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/building-secure-clis-clap-4/ Design patterns for secure CLI tools in Rust using clap 4: secret handling, input validation, static binaries, and predictable exit codes. Async Rust with tokio 1.29, A Production Mental Model https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/async-rust-tokio-1-29/ Fri, 14 Jul 2023 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/async-rust-tokio-1-29/ A working model of async Rust on tokio 1.29 — futures, the runtime, cancellation, and the patterns that hold up in production. Memory Safety Without a Garbage Collector, What Rust Actually Guarantees https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/memory-safety-without-gc/ Tue, 11 Jul 2023 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/memory-safety-without-gc/ The real scope of Rust’s memory safety guarantees, the classes of bugs they eliminate, and the ones they don’t. Ownership and Borrowing in Practice, A Working Mental Model https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/ownership-borrowing-in-practice/ Fri, 07 Jul 2023 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/ownership-borrowing-in-practice/ A working mental model for Rust ownership and borrowing built from production backend code, not toy examples. Why Rust Is Growing Fast in Backend Engineering https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/why-rust-growing-fast-backend/ Tue, 04 Jul 2023 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/why-rust-growing-fast-backend/ Why Rust adoption is accelerating in backend teams in 2023, the real production wins, and the friction points nobody talks about. March Retro, What Rust Earned Its Keep For https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/march-retro-rust-backend/ Wed, 30 Mar 2022 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/march-retro-rust-backend/ One month of backend Rust. What stuck, what bounced, where it fits, what to warn the next person about. Rust vs Go for Backend APIs, When Each One Wins https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/rust-vs-go-backend-api/ Mon, 28 Mar 2022 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/rust-vs-go-backend-api/ Rust vs Go for backend APIs in 2022. Compile times, perf, ergonomics, ecosystem, hiring. Honest after shipping both. Containerizing a Rust Service, A Sub-25MB Production Image https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/rust-docker-image-small-distroless/ Fri, 25 Mar 2022 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/rust-docker-image-small-distroless/ Sub-25 MB Rust image. cargo-chef, musl static linking, distroless, BuildKit cache. Full Dockerfile + CI. Structured Logging in Rust with tracing https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/rust-structured-logging-tracing/ Wed, 23 Mar 2022 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/rust-structured-logging-tracing/ Rust structured logging with tracing. Spans, events, request context, JSON output, production patterns. Serde JSON Patterns, Tagged Enums and the Tricks That Save Time https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/rust-serde-json-patterns/ Mon, 21 Mar 2022 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/rust-serde-json-patterns/ Practical serde JSON patterns. Tagged enums, rename_all, flatten, custom serializers — handle real APIs cleanly. Postgres in Rust with sqlx, A Practical Setup https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/rust-sqlx-postgres/ Fri, 18 Mar 2022 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/rust-sqlx-postgres/ Postgres in Rust with sqlx 0.5. Compile-time SQL checking, query macros, migrations, transactions, gotchas. Building a JSON API in Rust with Axum 0.4 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/rust-json-api-axum/ Wed, 16 Mar 2022 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/rust-json-api-axum/ JSON API in Rust with Axum 0.4. Router, extractors, state, error handling, tower middleware. Minimal real backend. Async Rust with Tokio in 2022 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/async-rust-tokio-2022/ Mon, 14 Mar 2022 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/async-rust-tokio-2022/ Async Rust with Tokio. What async/await compiles to, picking a runtime, tasks vs threads, maintainable async patterns. Cargo Workspaces for Backend Services https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/cargo-workspaces-backend-services/ Fri, 11 Mar 2022 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/cargo-workspaces-backend-services/ Cargo workspaces for Rust backends. Layout, shared crates, per-binary builds, compile-time wins. Rust Error Handling, Result, ?, thiserror, anyhow https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/rust-error-handling-result-thiserror/ Wed, 09 Mar 2022 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/rust-error-handling-result-thiserror/ Rust error handling. Result, ?, thiserror for libs, anyhow for apps. Patterns that replace try/catch. Rust Lifetimes Without the Fear https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/rust-lifetimes-without-fear/ Mon, 07 Mar 2022 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/rust-lifetimes-without-fear/ Rust lifetimes demystified. Why they exist, what ‘a means, elision, and the three patterns that cover 95% of code. Rust Ownership and Borrowing for People Who Already Know Pointers https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/rust-ownership-borrowing-for-go-devs/ Fri, 04 Mar 2022 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/rust-ownership-borrowing-for-go-devs/ Rust ownership for people who know pointers. Move semantics, &T vs &mut T, three rules, patterns that click. Why I'm Learning Rust in 2022 (as a Go Developer) https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/why-learn-rust-in-2022/ Wed, 02 Mar 2022 09:00:00 +0700 https://muhammadamal.my.id/blog/why-learn-rust-in-2022/ A Go dev picks up Rust in 2022. Where it wins, where it doesn’t, and what the first month feels like.