npm's first rust service

Here's a cleaned-up version of the presentation I gave to my team today (Nov 10 2016) about our first service in Rust.

• slides in markdown format
• rendered slides in PDF

What these slides are missing is the discussion we had about Rust-specific concepts like lifetimes and borrowing. They also make no attempt to introduce you to the language, but instead show you the kinds of things I had to learn how to do to make an operationalized microservice, that is, something for the real world.

Rust web pages I learned from

• the official docs
• Rust by Example
• the faq
• the source code of every module from cargo that I used

If you can stomach the attitude of The Question Police on Stack Overflow, there are some useful questions asked there.

Links my team shared with me afterward:

• Rust means never having to close a socket -- all about lifetimes.