Today's post is about Rust, the programming language. (more…)

Rust is a relatively new system programming language that has been experiencing a rapid adoption in the past 10 years. Rust incorporates a memory ownership model enforced at a compile time. Since this model involves zero runtime overhead, programs written... (more…)

Password authentication is seen as the simplest auth method, but there are plenty of pitfalls along the way. We will implement Basic auth from scratch, examining several classes of attacks against our API - and how to counter them. (more…)

Rust's ownership model enables enforcing the use of database transactions, while still allowing single queries without transactions. (more…)

You can check out: https://github.com/microsoft/beginners-series-rust for the code that we'll be using throughout this series, as well as other helpful resou... (more…)