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Axum Microservices

Axum Fundamentals

1.Your First Axum Server

Foundations

2.What Is a Microservice
3.Splitting a System Into Services

HTTP API

4.REST API Design: Resources, Validation, and Pagination
5.Error Handling and Rejections in Axum

Database

6.PostgreSQL with SQLx: Migrations, Pools, and CRUD
7.Relationships, Indexes, and the N+1 Problem
8.Transactions, Locking, Idempotency, and the Outbox
9.SeaORM: Entities, Relations, and ActiveModel
10.Caching with Redis

Testing

11.Testing Axum Services: Handlers, Databases, and Contracts

Security

12.Authentication and Authorization in Axum
13.OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, and mTLS for Services

Middleware

14.Middleware with Tower and tower-http

Operations

15.Observability: Tracing, Logging, and Metrics
16.Resilience Patterns for Service Calls
17.Health Checks, Graceful Shutdown, and Configuration
18.Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD for Axum Services

gRPC with Tonic

19.gRPC Basics: Protobuf and Unary RPC with Tonic
20.gRPC Streaming, Status Codes, Deadlines, and Interceptors
21.Production gRPC: TLS, Health, Load Balancing, and Testing

GraphQL

22.GraphQL Basics: Schema, Queries, and Mutations with async-graphql
23.GraphQL DataLoader, Errors, Limits, and Auth
24.GraphQL Subscriptions, Federation, and Protocol Comparison

Real-Time Delivery

25.WebSockets and Server-Sent Events in Axum

Distributed Patterns

26.API Gateway, Service Discovery, and Load Balancing
27.Messaging and Kafka
28.RabbitMQ and NATS
29.Sagas and Distributed Transactions
30.CQRS and Event Sourcing

Axum Microservices

Axum Fundamentals

1.Your First Axum Server

Foundations

2.What Is a Microservice
3.Splitting a System Into Services

HTTP API

4.REST API Design: Resources, Validation, and Pagination
5.Error Handling and Rejections in Axum

Database

6.PostgreSQL with SQLx: Migrations, Pools, and CRUD
7.Relationships, Indexes, and the N+1 Problem
8.Transactions, Locking, Idempotency, and the Outbox
9.SeaORM: Entities, Relations, and ActiveModel
10.Caching with Redis

Testing

11.Testing Axum Services: Handlers, Databases, and Contracts

Security

12.Authentication and Authorization in Axum
13.OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, and mTLS for Services

Middleware

14.Middleware with Tower and tower-http

Operations

15.Observability: Tracing, Logging, and Metrics
16.Resilience Patterns for Service Calls
17.Health Checks, Graceful Shutdown, and Configuration
18.Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD for Axum Services

gRPC with Tonic

19.gRPC Basics: Protobuf and Unary RPC with Tonic
20.gRPC Streaming, Status Codes, Deadlines, and Interceptors
21.Production gRPC: TLS, Health, Load Balancing, and Testing

GraphQL

22.GraphQL Basics: Schema, Queries, and Mutations with async-graphql
23.GraphQL DataLoader, Errors, Limits, and Auth
24.GraphQL Subscriptions, Federation, and Protocol Comparison

Real-Time Delivery

25.WebSockets and Server-Sent Events in Axum

Distributed Patterns

26.API Gateway, Service Discovery, and Load Balancing
27.Messaging and Kafka
28.RabbitMQ and NATS
29.Sagas and Distributed Transactions
30.CQRS and Event Sourcing

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Operations

Instrument, harden, configure, and deploy services.

4 lessons

15.Observability: Tracing, Logging, and Metrics
16.Resilience Patterns for Service Calls
17.Health Checks, Graceful Shutdown, and Configuration
18.Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD for Axum Services

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