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Writing Scalable Chat Service from Scratch

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Learn practical Rust usage and build a scalable, real-time chat service from scratch. Ideal for developers interested in systems programming.

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Introduction

In this series of articles, the author follows the process of creating a scalable, real-time chat service. The objective is to learn more about practical usage of the emerging language Rust and to cover the basic problems of using system programming interfaces, going step by step.

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Highlights

  • Learn practical usage of the Rust programming language
  • Understand the basics of system programming interfaces
  • Build a scalable, real-time chat service from scratch

Recommendation

This course is recommended for developers who are interested in systems programming and want to learn more about the Rust language. Prior knowledge of POSIX API or C/C++ would be helpful, but not required. The course covers low-level details, so a good cup of coffee is advised.

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